Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: Mona Lisa Overdrive


Related Topics

In the News (Fri 24 May 13)

  
  William Gibson: Mona Lisa Overdrive
Squat Mona dreamed she was dancing the cage back in some Cleveland juke, naked in a column of hot blue light, where the faces thrusting up for her through the veil of smoke had blue light snagged in the whites of their eyes.
Mona tended to get the ones who wanted to talk, who tried to buy you a sandwich after, which could be bad in its own way but not the kind of bad Eddy needed.
And Mona had to bite her tongue to keep from laughing, because the system had a cosmetic program that made him look different on the screens, stretched his face a little and made his chin stronger, and he didn't seem to notice.
project.cyberpunk.ru /lib/mona_lisa_overdrive   (23137 words)

  
 |-lance olsen: william gibson: mona lisa overdrive-|
While Molly appears to strike off on her own at the conclusion of the novel, accompanied solely by a robot and the aleph, she is in a way still employed by the loa or subprograms to guard the personality constructs that the aleph houses.
Literal ghosts proliferate Mona Lisa Overdrive, from Kumi's mother to personality constructs such as Finn, Colin, and those of the previous Yakuza bosses kept by Kumi's father; these are emblems of memory which the characters cannot escape.
Mona Lisa Overdrive may simply be the product of a single science fiction writer of the 1980s who has suddenly achieved success, and who suddenly needs to rewrite paler and paler versions of the same book in order to continue that success.
www.lanceolsen.com /monalisaoverdrive.html   (3519 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Mona Lisa Overdrive
Mona Lisa Overdrive is a Cyberpunk novel by William Gibson published in 1988 and concludes the The Sprawl trilogy which is formed of Gibson's prior novels, Neuromancer and Count Zero.
Mona is hired by shady individuals for a 'gig' which later turns out to be part of a plot to abduct Angie.
Mona Lisa Overdrive is also the name of a piece on The Matrix Reloaded soundtrack, performed by Juno Reactor at the Wachowski brothers' request and under their supervision.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Mona_Lisa_Overdrive   (407 words)

  
 Literary Encyclopedia: Mona Lisa Overdrive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988), the third novel in Gibson’s Sprawl Trilogy after Neuromancer and Count Zero, did not meet with the same ecstatic reception amongst his fans that the first two had enjoyed.
The existence of a closely-knit web of cross-textual references amongst the novels of the trilogy signals Gibson’s narrative efficiency, although it puzzles the reader who is not familiar with Gibson’s writing style as well as with the plotlines of his other two books.
As for Mona, her pre and post-surgery status as Angie’s double makes us question the value of authenticity in a world where identities can be re-fashioned and re-produced due to the mediation of technology itself: “She looked at the face in the mirror and tried on that famous smile.
www.litencyc.com /php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=10551   (676 words)

  
 William Gibson aleph - Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988)
Mona's pimp sells her to a plastic surgeon in New York and she's turned overnight into someone else.
'Mona Lisa Overdrive' is Gibson's third novel and conclusion to the entire Sprawl series.
The name of this website 'William Gibson aleph' is based on 'Mona Lisa Overdrive', in which an aleph is a huge biochip that can store vast amounts of data.
www.antonraubenweiss.com /gibson/03monalisa.html   (128 words)

  
 Mona Lisa Overdrive Summary
Mona Lisa Overdrive (ISBN 0553281747) is a Cyberpunk novel by William Gibson published in 1988 and concludes the The Sprawl trilogy which is formed of Gibson's prior novels, Neuromancer and Count Zero.
Get the complete Mona Lisa Overdrive Summary Pack, which includes everything on this page.
Mona Lisa Overdrive: The Sprawl trilogy, of which Mona Lisa Overdrive is the third part.
www.bookrags.com /Mona_Lisa_Overdrive   (98 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Mona Lisa Overdrive: Books: William Gibson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Of course there is Mona, an illegitimate human, since she exists without an ID number in the digital age.
Mona is almost a street person, a nonentity, but she looks much like Angie Mitchell.
MONA LISA OVERDRIVE is a fine novel and a successful conclusion to The Sprawl Trilogy; however, if you're new to Gibson, start with BURNING CHROME (short stories) or NEUROMANCER.
www.amazon.ca /Mona-Lisa-Overdrive-William-Gibson/dp/0553281747   (1387 words)

  
 Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson
Mona Lisa Overdrive is the final part of Gibson's loosely-related 'Sprawl'-trilogy of novels.
Into the cyber-hip world of William Gibson comes Mona, a young girl with a murky past and an uncertain future whose life is on a collision course with internationally famous Sense/Net star Angie Mitchell.
Now, from inside cyberspace, a kidnapping plot is masterminded by a phantom entity who has plans for Mona, Angie, and all humanity, plans that cannot be controlled...or even known.
project.cyberpunk.ru /idb/monalisaoverdrive.html   (146 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Mona Lisa Overdrive (Bantam Spectra Book): Books: William Gibson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Of course there is Mona, an illegitimate human, since she exists without an ID number in the digital age.
Mona is almost a street person, a nonentity, but she looks much like Angie Mitchell.
Mona Lisa Overdrive lacks a certain amount of passion and though he was something of a cypher, it doesn't have a character as powerful as Case.
www.amazon.com /Mona-Lisa-Overdrive-Bantam-Spectra/dp/0553281747   (1792 words)

  
 Mona Lisa Overdrive - Born To Synthasize (Remixes Disc 1) | [PS] Reviews
Mona Lisa Overdrive - Born To Synthasize (Remixes Disc 1)
Mona Lisa Overdrive "Born To Synthasize (Remixes Disc 1)"
Now sometime later, Platipus dust it off and give it some new mixes, so what do they add to or take away from it..
www.progressive-sounds.com /Music-Reviews/mona-lisa-overdrive-born-to-synthasize-remixes.asp   (499 words)

  
 Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson - 0553281747
Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson - 0553281747
Into this world comes Mona, a young girl with a murky past and an uncertain future whose life is on a collision course with internationally famous Sense/Net star Angie Mitchell.
Now, from inside cyberspace, a kidnapping plot is masterminded by a phantom entity who has plans for Mona, Angie, and all humanity, plans that cannot be controlled.
www.allbookstores.com /book/0553281747/William_Gibson/Mona_Lisa_Overdrive.html   (214 words)

  
 Mona Lisa Overdrive
Mona Lisa Overdrive is the final volume in Gibson's "Sprawl" series.
While one could feel a little of this reading Mona Lisa Overdrive, I personally found it a very worthy conclusion to "Neuromancer" and "Count Zero."
The possibilities for "ghosts in the machine" of cyberspace and auto-destructive art, two themes Gibson has touched on in the past, are magnified in Mona Lisa.
www.streettech.com /bcp/BCPgraf/Media/mona.htm   (336 words)

  
 Mona Lisa Overdrive - AOL Music
Mona Lisa Overdrive is a Cyberpunk novel by William Gibson published in 1988 and concludes the The Sprawl trilogy which is formed of Gibson's prior novels,...
Amazon.com: Mona Lisa Overdrive (Bantam Spectra Book): Books...
Download, listen and watch Mona Lisa Overdrive music, mp3's, song lyrics, music videos, Internet radio, live performances, concerts, and more on AOL Music.
music.aol.com /artist/mona-lisa-overdrive/143179/main   (137 words)

  
 Untitled Document
Mona Lisa Overdrive - The Art of Captitalism
An interactive portrait of Mona Lisa with her smile replaced by a stock market ticker, which displays the online stock market values of the 25 most valueable companies in the world (General Motors, AXA, BP, IBM, etc.)
The smile of art got replaced by the teeth of capitalism, if you don't believe it have a look at contemporary art fairs.
www.servus.at /cubic/monalisa.htm   (175 words)

  
 Mona Lisa Overdrive Study Guide by William Gibson: Key Questions
Mona Lisa Overdrive Study Guide by William Gibson: Key Questions
Although Gibson does not present his near-future world as either utopic or dystopic, clearly his vision of one possible near-future invites discussion of such topics as the impact of.....
Mona Lisa Overdrive from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults.
www.bookrags.com /shortguide-mona-lisa-overdrive/keyquestions.html   (167 words)

  
 Mona Lisa Overdrive - MatrixDictionary
Written by William Gibson and first published in 1989.
Mona's pimp sells her to a plastic surgeon and she's turned overnight into the double of Angie, the famous Hollywood star.
Now Mona as well as Angie is the target of the shadowy Yakuza, the powerful Japanese mafia.
www.dictionary-of-matrix.com /index.php/Mona_Lisa_Overdrive   (80 words)

  
 pullquote: Mona Lisa Overdrive
Roberts' long reign as America's Sweetheart has given her the "ability to choose" to produce a star vehicle for herself even as she gets too old to be cast as an ingenue by the Hollywood system that made her.
Basically, Mona Lisa Smile is all about Roberts' feeding off the vitality of her starlet costars.
The Italians have a word to explain Mona Lisa's smile: sfumato.
pullquote.typepad.com /pullquote/2004/01/mona_lisa_overd.html   (712 words)

  
 purevolume™ | Mona Lisa Overdrive
Mona Lisa Overdrive hasn't posted a blog yet.
Mona Lisa Overdrive hasn't posted any shows yet.
All songs, lyrics and pictures © Mona Lisa Overdrive.
www.purevolume.com /monalisaoverdrive/music   (86 words)

  
 Mona Lisa Overdrive - Biography - AOL Music
Mona Lisa Overdrive - Biography - AOL Music
Arthur Barrow and Joe Faraci formed the techno-pop group Mona Lisa Overdrive and released their debut single, "Stuck," in 1993.
Get Mona Lisa Overdrive biography information, download, listen and watch Mona Lisa Overdrive music, mp3's, song lyrics, music videos, Internet radio, live performances, concerts, and use the music search function to find information on other new and established recording artists.
music.aol.com /artist/mona-lisa-overdrive/143179/biography   (76 words)

  
 Mona Lisa Overdrive - William Gibson - Printed Books Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
Mona Lisa Overdrive - William Gibson : Overdrive over too soon
Gibson brings together a still more disparate group of characters, more separate strands than his previous works, to show new areas of this possible future.
Low-life Mona is taken off the street as part of some unknown conspiracy.
www.dooyoo.co.uk /printed-books/mona-lisa-overdrive-william-gibson   (235 words)

  
 Mona Lisa Overdrive Social Concerns
Mona Lisa Overdrive continues Gibson's concern with the impact of technology, but the novel also pursues in more depth family and generational issues as well as romantic relationships.
The novel poses fundamental questions about the ways people can cope with adversity and make choices about changing the way they live their lives.
Tell a friend about Mona Lisa Overdrive at eNotes.
www.enotes.com /mona-lisa-qn/59690   (110 words)

  
 William Gibson - Mona Lisa Overdrive
Mona dreamed she was dancing the cage back in some Cleveland juke, naked in a
Mona could see the sun through a couple of rips in the fl plastic they kept
SINless, Mona, and this older trick had told her once that that was a song,
www.voidspace.org.uk /cyberpunk/monalisa.shtml   (14743 words)

  
 Literatureview.com :: Mona Lisa Overdrive
Having completed another futuristic William Gibson novel, Mona Lisa Overdrive, I recalled how several characters in the book were electronic circuits that contained the knowledge of individuals who had died as well as individuals who were created from scratch.
In Mona Lisa Overdrive, the cyberspace is a vast repository of information, Individuals, no longer physically alive, inhabit this cyberspace, living out lives among the vast storehouses of information.
He who has access to and controls this wealth of information has immense power.
www.literatureview.com /moxie/scifi/monalisa.shtml   (465 words)

  
 Reviews for Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Into this world comes Mona, a young girl with a murky past and an uncertain future whose life is on a collision course with internationally famous Sense/Net star Angie Mitchell.
Now, from inside cyberspace, a kidnapping plot is masterminded by a phantom entity who has plans for Mona, Angie, and all humanity, plans that cannot be controlled.
And behind the intrigue lurks the shadowy Yazuka, the powerful Japanese underworld, whose leaders ruthlessly manipulate people and events to suit their own purposes.
www.galactium.com /books_MonaLisaOverdrive.html   (178 words)

  
 Mona Lisa Overdrive?? (Matrix Forum)
So my conclusion is that the term "overdrive" seemed suitable for the freeway chase and it would be a cool reference, thus MONA LISA OVERDRIVE.
It is the first installment of the Sprawl Trilogy which, as the site above said, ended in MONA LISA OVERDRIVE.
where the mona lisa represents the devine feminine...
www.matrix-explained.com /php/about-the-matrix-movies-315.html   (546 words)

  
 Reactor Leak / william gibson, mona lisa overdrive
In meetings, I kept on calling it "Overdrive," and I could see that it was raising eyebrows.
the Mona Lisa is a depiction of Mary Magdalene and Jesus Christ.
So I was stoned one night just staring at the Mona Lisa (they always talk about her face) but I ended up studying the clothing and yeah, you can see.
www.reactorleak.com /forum/viewtopic.php?id=498   (1460 words)

  
 Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, book 3) by William Gibson
Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, book 3) by William Gibson
When an impossibly tall and powerful skyscraper of data appears suddenly in the landscape of the Matrix, Gentry is ready for it, Angie is part of it, and Mona is set for overdrive.
Rapture is on the agenda for all three, but others greedy for money and power will fight them to the death.
www.fantasticfiction.co.uk /g/william-gibson/mona-lisa-overdrive.htm   (198 words)

  
 Hovercraft by William Gibson from Mona Lisa Overdrive
Hovercraft by William Gibson from Mona Lisa Overdrive
For an amusing look at an intelligent (?) hovercraft, see the entry for hover-limo - hovercraft for hire from Steel Beach by John Varley.
Tech news articles related to Mona Lisa Overdrive
www.technovelgy.com /ct/content.asp?Bnum=489   (381 words)

  
 Mona Lisa Overdrive Themes
In Mona Lisa Overdrive Gibson explores the transformations and accommodations that must be made to cope with a changing technology.
Understanding the way in which the matrix has changed as a result of the raid on the Villa Straylight in Neuromancer is a central question for the character Gentry, the console cowboy of Monta Lisa Overdrive who is the direct spiritual descendent of earlier figures Case (in Neuromancer) and Bobby Newmark (in Count Zero).
He is preoccupied with questions of When It Changed and How It Changed, questions whose answers all stem from the...
www.enotes.com /mona-lisa-qn/59691   (131 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Mona Lisa Overdrive: Books: William Gibson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Indeed it's the aching similarities between the artificial reality that Gibson has created and the real thing which make this a work of literature and a thing of beauty.
FIVE BIG, FAT, JUICY STARS for Mona Lisa Overdrive
After reading Mona Lisa Overdrive two times I'm still not sure about the plot of the book.
www.amazon.co.uk /Mona-Lisa-Overdrive-William-Gibson/dp/0006480446   (616 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.