$19.28 Buy It Now or Best Offer
free,30-Day Returns
Seller Store
() %,
Location:
Ships to: US,
Item: 135241815383
Condition:New
ISBN-13:9780553281743
Type:Does not apply
ISBN:9780553281743
UPC:Does not apply
eBay The Nile on eBay Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson Living in the vast computer landscape of cyberspace, young Mona taps into the mind of world-famous Sense/Net star Angie Mitchell who deciphers cyberspace plans, including those devised by Japanese underworld. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel Neuromancer, has written his most brilliant and thrilling work to date . . .The Mona Lisa Overdrive.Enter Gibson’s unique world-lyric and mechanical, sensual and violent, sobering and exciting-where multinational corporations and high tech outlaws vie for power, traveling into the computer-generated universe known as cyberspace.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.Since childhood, Angie has been able to tap into cyberspace without a computer.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.And behind the intrigue lurks the shadowy Yazuka, the powerful Japanese underworld, whose leaders ruthlessly manipulate people and events to suit their own purposes . . . or so they think. Author Biography William Gibson’s first novel, Neuromancer, won the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and the Philip K. Dick Award. He is the New York Times bestselling author of Count Zero, Burning Chrome, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Virtual Light, Idoru, All Tomorrow’s Parties, Pattern Recognition, Spook Country, Zero History, Distrust That Particular Flavor, and The Peripheral. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, with his wife. Excerpt from Book 1 THE SMOKE The ghost was her father”s parting gift, presented by a black-clad secretary in a departure lounge at Narita. For the first two hours of the flight to London it lay forgotten in her purse, a smooth dark oblong, one side impressed with the ubiquitous Maas-Neotek logo, the other gently curved to fit the user”s palm. She sat up very straight in her seat in the first-class cabin, her features composed in a small cold mask modeled after her dead mother”s most characteristic expression. The surrounding seats were ∅ her father had purchased the space. She refused the meal the nervous steward offered. The vacant seats frightened him, evidence of her father”s wealth and power. The man hesitated, then bowed and withdrew. Very briefly, she allowed the mask her mother”s smile. Ghosts, she thought later, somewhere over Germany, staring at the upholstery of the seat beside her. How well her father treated his ghosts. There were ghosts beyond the window, too, ghosts in the stratosphere of Europe”s winter, partial images that began to form if she let her eyes drift out of focus. Her mother in Ueno Park, face fragile in September sunlight. “The cranes, Kumi! Look at the cranes!” And Kumiko looked across Shinobazu Pond and saw nothing, no cranes at all, only a few hopping black dots that surely were crows. The water was smooth as silk, the color of lead, and pale holograms flickered indistinctly above a distant line of archery stalls. But Kumiko would see the cranes later, many times, in dreams; they were origami, angular things folded from sheets of neon, bright stiff birds sailing the moonscape of her mother”s madness…. Remembering her father, the black robe open across a tattooed storm of dragons, slumped behind the vast ebony field of his desk, his eyes flat and bright, like the eyes of a painted doll. “Your mother is dead. Do you understand?” And all around her the planes of shadow in his study, the angular darkness. His hand coming forward, into the lamp”s circle of light, unsteadily, to point at her, the robe”s cuff sliding back to reveal a golden Rolex and more dragons, their manes swirling into waves, pricked out strong and dark around his wrist, pointing. Pointing at her. “Do you understand?” She hadn”t answered, but had run instead, down to a secret place she knew, the warren of the smallest of the cleaning machines. They ticked around her all night, scanning her every few minutes with pink bursts of laser light, until her father came to find her, and, smelling of whiskey and Dunhill cigarettes, carried her to her room on the apartment”s third floor. Remembering the weeks that followed, numb days spent most often in the black-suited company of one secretary or another, cautious men with automatic smiles and tightly furled umbrellas. One of these, the youngest and least cautious, had treated her, on a crowded Ginza sidewalk, in the shadow of the Hattori clock, to an impromptu kendo demonstration, weaving expertly between startled shop girls and wide-eyed tourists, the black umbrella blurring harmlessly through the art”s formal, ancient arcs. And Kumiko had smiled then, her own smile, breaking the funeral mask, and for this her guilt was driven instantly, more deeply and still more sharply, into that place in her heart where she knew her shame and her unworthiness. But most often the secretaries took her shopping, through one vast Ginza department store after another, and in and out of dozens of Shinjuku boutiques recommended by a blue plastic Michelin guide that spoke a stuffy tourist”s Japanese. She purchased only very ugly things, ugly and very expensive things, and the secretaries marched stolidly beside her, the glossy bags in their hard hands. Each afternoon, returning to her father”s apartment, the bags were deposited neatly in her bedroom, where they remained, unopened and untouched, until the maids removed them. And in the seventh week, on the eve of her thirteenth birthday, it was arranged that Kumiko would go to London. “You will be a guest in the house of my kobun,” her father said. “But I do not wish to go,” she said, and showed him her mother”s smile. “You must,” he said, and turned away. “There are difficulties,” he said to the shadowed study. “You will be in no danger, in London.” “And when shall I return?” The ghost woke to Kumiko”s touch as they began their descent into Heathrow. The fifty-first generation of Maas-Neotek biochips conjured up an indistinct figure on the seat beside her, a boy out of some faded hunting print, legs crossed casually in tan breeches and riding boots. “Hullo,” the ghost said. Kumiko blinked, opened her hand. The boy flickered and was gone. She looked down at the smooth little unit in her palm and slowly closed her fingers. ” ”Lo again,” he said. “Name”s Colin. Yours?” She stared. His eyes were bright green smoke, his high forehead pale and smooth under an unruly dark forelock. She could see the seats across the aisle through the glint of his teeth. “If it”s a bit too spectral for you,” he said, with a grin, “we can up the rez….” And he was there for an instant, uncomfortably sharp and real, the nap on the lapels of his dark coat vibrating with hallucinatory clarity. “Runs the battery down, though,” he said, and faded to his prior state. “Didn”t get your name.” The grin again. “You aren”t real,” she said sternly. He shrugged. “Needn”t speak out loud, miss. Fellow passengers might think you a bit odd, if you take my meaning Subvocal”s the way. I pick it all up through the skin….” He uncrossed his legs and stretched, hands clasped behind his head. “Seatbelt, miss. I needn”t buckle up myself, of course, being, as you”ve pointed out, unreal.” Kumiko frowned and tossed the unit into the ghost”s lap. He vanished. She fastened her seatbelt, glanced at the thing, hesitated, then picked it up again. “First time in London, then?” he asked, swirling in from the periphery of her vision. She nodded in spite of herself. “You don”t mind flying? Doesn”t frighten you?” She shook her head, feeling ridiculous. “Never mind,” the ghost said. “I”ll look out for you. Heathrow in three minutes. Someone meeting you off the plane?” “My father”s business associate,” she said in Japanese. The ghost grinned. “Then you”ll be in good hands, I”m sure.” He winked. “Wouldn”t think I”m a linguist to look at me, would you?” Kumiko closed her eyes and the ghost began to whisper to her, something about the archaeology of Heathrow, about the Neolithic and the Iron ages, pottery and tools….” “Miss Yanaka? Kumiko Yanaka?” The Englishman towered above her, his gaijin bulk draped in elephantine folds of dark wool. Small dark eyes regarded her blandly through steel-rimmed glasses. His nose seemed to have been crushed nearly flat and never reset. His hair, what there was of it, had been shaved back to a gray stubble, and his black knit gloves were frayed and fingerless. “My name, you see,” he said, as though this would immediately reassure her, “is Petal.” Petal called the city Smoke. Kumiko shivered on chill red leather; through the ancient Jaguar”s window she watched the snow spinning down to melt on the road Petal called M4. The late afternoon sky was colorless. He drove silently, efficiently, his lips pursed as though he were about to whistle. The traffic, to Tokyo eyes, was absurdly light. They accelerated past an unmanned Eurotrans freight vehicle, its blunt prow studded with sensors and banks of headlights. In spite of the Jaguar”s speed, Kumiko felt as if somehow she were standing still; London”s particles began to accrete around her. Walls of wet brick, arches of concrete, black-painted ironwork standing up in spears. As she watched, the city began to define itself. Off the M4, while the Jaguar waited at intersections, she could glimpse faces through the snow, flushed gaijin faces above dark clothing, chins tucked down into scarves, women”s bootheels ticking through silver puddles. The rows of shops and houses reminded her of the gorgeously detailed accessories she”d seen displayed around a toy locomotive in the Osaka gallery of a dealer in European antiques. This was nothing like Tokyo, where the past, all that remained of it, was nurtured with a nervous care. History there had become a quantity, a rare thing, parceled out by government and preserved by law and corporate funding. Here it seemed the very fabric of things, as if the city were a single growth of stone and brick, uncounted strata of message and meaning, age upon age, generated over the centuries to the dictates of some now-all-but-unreadable DNA of commerce and empire. “Regret Swain couldn”t come out to meet you himself,” the man called Petal said. Kumiko had less trouble with his accent than with his manner of structuring sentences; she initially mistook the apology for a command. She considered accessing the ghost, then rejected the idea. “Swain,” she ventured. “Mr. Swain is my host?” Petal”s eyes found her in the mirror. “Roger Swain. Your father didn”t tell you?” “No.” “Ah.” He nodded. “Mr. Kanaka”s conscious of security in these matters, it stands to reason…. Man of his stature, et cetera …” He sighed loudly. “Sorry about the heater. Garage was supposed to have that tak Details ISBN0553281747 Author William Gibson Short Title MONA LISA OVERDRIVE Language English ISBN-10 0553281747 ISBN-13 9780553281743 Media Book DEWEY FIC Year 1997 Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Illustrations illustrations Residence Vancouver, B.C., -CN Birth 1948 DOI 10.1604/9780553281743 Series Number 3 Subtitle A Novel UK Release Date 1997-02-06 AU Release Date 1997-02-06 NZ Release Date 1997-02-06 US Release Date 1997-02-06 Pages 320 Publisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc Series Sprawl Trilogy Format Paperback Publication Date 1997-02-06 Audience General We’ve got this At The Nile, if you’re looking for it, we’ve got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items – you’re bound to find what you want, at a price you’ll love! TheNile_Item_ID:2615772;
Frequently Asked Questions About Mona Lisa Overdrive: A Novel by William Gibson (English) Paperback Book in My Website
oudalhussain.com is the best online shopping platform where you can buy Mona Lisa Overdrive: A Novel by William Gibson (English) Paperback Book from renowned brand(s). oudalhussain.com delivers the most unique and largest selection of products from across the world especially from the US, UK and India at best prices and the fastest delivery time.
What are the best-selling Mona Lisa Overdrive: A Novel by William Gibson (English) Paperback Book on oudalhussain.com?
oudalhussain.com helps you to shop online and delivers Kappa to your doorstep. The best-selling Kappa on oudalhussain.com are: NWT KAPPA AUTHENTIC BLACK SHERPA SWEATSHIRT HOODIE LONG SLEEVE SHOWFLAKE size S Kappa Mens Ruiz Long Sleeve Shirt Large Green Graphic Sleeve Hit Crew Neck Logo ! FREE SHIPPING Blackburn Rovers FC KAPPA 2000 Football Soccer Jersey Adults s M KAPPA AUTHENTIC ESMIO Men’s Kappa Black Sweat Shorts Pull On Drawstring Activewear Training Sz S Gosha Rubchinskiy x Kappa Fashion Mesh Tank Top Black Size L RARE Kappa 222 Banda Anniston Track Jacket Petrol-Pink Size Small Regular Fit Kappa Hoodie Sweater “TIEANDYE” Size Small Robe Di Kappa Brand New Authentic KAPPA Joggers Men Size L Olive Sweatpants Side Pockets Zip-Ankles Gym Casual Gym Pi Kappa Phi Join Or Die Bella + Canvas POCKET T Shirt Pi Kapp Frocket Tee NEW KAPPA MENS LONG SLEEVE WHITE/RED MEDIUM SHIRT Kappa tennis club short sleeve crewneck tee white t-shirt regular fit mens 2XL Kappa Gumball 3000 Carrera Hot Wheels Jersey Adult Large Nice! Aston Villa Training Jacket Long Sleeve Blue Kappa Mens Size 2XL ig93 Manchester City | Men’s Medium Retro Jersey 90s Rare Kappa Juventus Vintage 90s Heavy Jacket Men’s Kappa Termo Black Size: M Kappa Alpha Psi Frat Shirt Size Extra Large XL Polo Kappa Active LOGO TAPE Side Pocket ALIC 2 TRACKPANTS Jogger Sweatpants New LEEDS UNITED KAPPA TRAINING TOP FOOTBALL SHIRT 2017-18 SOCCER JERSEY BLUE MEDIUM Phi Sigma Kappa – Chi Omega Short Sleeve T-shirt, Orange, 100% Cotton, Size M Limit to 500 Van Basten #9 AC Milan 1988 1989 Original Home Jersey Kappa Size XL Vintage Kappa Myrtle Beach Long Sleeve T Shirt Spellout Mens Large White USA Y2K Kappa Brazil Soccer T-SHIRT Embroidered Med NWT KAPPA AUTHENTIC PANTHERS UNIVERSITY HOODIE MENS MEDIUM BURGUNDY Kappa Shorts Mens Medium Black Work Out Gym Basketball Shorts Elastic Waist Vintage Kappa Puffer Vest XXL Black Green Down Puffer Kappa Italy Sport Hooded Black & Orange Size Large Hoodie KAPPA Jacket Mens Small S Black Yellow Logo Spell Out Full Zip Quilted Kappa Juventus Team T-Shirt Polyester Men Size XL White Striped Vintage Kappa Rolling Loud Miami Pullover Hoodie Men Medium White SIZE 2XL Kappa Mens 222 Banda Benettin 2 VELOUR TRACK JACKET BLACK JUVENTUS #11 KAPPA PRO SOCCER TSHIRT Sz L VTG BLACK PEPSI SPONSOR BRAND NEW TAGS Kappa Jacket Mens Large Windbreaker Blue Coat Half Zip * Kappa Sportswear Authentic Ruiz 2 White Black Sport Men XL X-Large Long Sleeve KAPPA Navy Vintage 90s zip fleece jacket SZ Medium (G9205) KAPPA TRACK JACKET MEDIUM M MENS BLACK TAPE LOGO FUTBOL SOCCER FULL ZIP VINTAGE 2005 Pies For Push Pi Kappa Phi Concert Festival College Shirt Y2K S Small Robe Di Kappa Mens Giovanni Varsity Jacket Black White Sz XL Brand New w/out Tag Kappa Japan Tracksuit Pant And T Shirt Large Men’s Yokai Shop Kappa No Sanpei Sweatshirt Adult Large Fits Medium Gray Mizuki Anime Kappa Training Shirt Men’s Large Gray Heather Knit Activewear Tee Kappa 222 Banda Tape S Track Pants Men’s Green Sage Slim Fit Athleisure NWT Real Betis Kappa Away Soccer Jersey Shirt EU XL US Large 20/21 NWT Joaquin #17 Kappa 222 Reflective Michael Tee Men’s Size L Short Sleeve T-shirt Yellow Logo Kappa Hoodie Mens Small Brown Graphic Logo Pullover Sweatshirt Sweater Kappa – US Ski Team ESTESSI Embroidered Logo Patch T-Shirt MENS BLACK – XXL 2XL Kappa Gumball 3000 Sanzen Japan Full Zipper Jacket Sweatshirt White #20 Red XL Kappa Logo Tape Apet 2 Mens Small Indigo Blue Regular Fit Hoodie Sweatshirt Aston Villa Shirt Kappa Blue Large Football Shirt Jersey Training Shirt Villa KAPPA Mens T-Shirt Black Crew Neck M Kappa Jacket Vintage Rainbow Color size Medium # 174934 Old Style Full Sleeves VINTAGE Kappa Polo Shirt Men’s Small Blue Tennis Short Sleeve Logo Kappa Sweater Mens Medium Gray Crew Neck Long Sleeve Embroidered Logo Pullover Kappa T Shirt Mens Large Blue Big Spellout Soccer Short Sleeve Premium Cotton Vintage Kappa Sigma Fraternity T-Shirt Size L 1985 Step Sing Single Stitch Robe di Kappa Tshirt Size Large NWT NAPOLI FC KAPPA GARA 2018 2019 HOME EUROPEAN JERSEY SIZE L Kappa Authentic Vasco da Gama Brazil 2024 Away Soccer Jersey Men’s Sz: XL NWT AUTHENTIC Kappa Fiorentina 2020-21 Snapback Hat KAPPA 222 BANDA ALANZ-2 Drawstring SWEATPANTS 311BHCW-A4F New Napoli Kappa Men Player Top T-Shirt Short Sleeve Navy Blue Football Running XL Popular Demand “TIGER” / Kappa Hoodies Black-Red Lot Of 2 Men’s Size Small Kappa Sweater Di Kappa Mens XL Wool Knit Crewneck Jumper Pullover Blue USA Flag Kappa Track Pants Red White Stripe Men Size Medium Perfect Condition Kappa 222 BANDA AFIEN 1/4 ZIP REFLECT Jacket Front Pocket Track Medium Running Delta Kappa Gamma Crewneck Made In USA Jerzees Large White Vintage Kappa Sports Track Jacket Orange XL Long Sleeve Zip Up Kappa Hoodie Sweater XS Green RARE Authentic Reflective Logo kappa hoodie Size XL Kappa Mens Graphic Tee Tshirt 2XL Beach Outdoors Camp Relax Short Sleeve Friends Kappa Men’s Banda Vulki Fuchsia Shirt Short Sleeve Pink Summer Shirt (XL) $55 tg Kappa Hoodie Small Mens Black Pullover Drawstring Graphic Print Cotton Polyester ITALIA KAPPA TRAINING TRACKSUIT-for people who wears size LARGE Kappa Jacket Adult SMALL Black Graphic Logo Long Sleeve Full Zip Classic Unisex kappa track pants men KAPPA Joggers Sweatpants Maroon Flex Waist Drawstring — Size L Venezia FC 2023/2024 Kappa Third Blue Jersey Long Sleeve M-3XL NWT w/ Bag ASTON VILLA 2021/2022 HOME FOOTBALL SHIRT JERSEY KAPPA SIZE M BOYS Kappa Sweatpants Trousers Women L Red Athletic Striped Drawstrings Patch Logo Kappa Authentic Vasco da Gama Brazil 2024 Soccer Jersey Men’s Sz: XL KAPPA Men’s Shirt Sleeve Logo Taping Logo Blue Gray Size M Reflective Kappa Zip Up Track Suit Jacket – Small Kappa AUTHENTIC FOOTBALL ERIN TRACKPANTS 3116LUW-A03 Blue Turkis-Black-W New Kappa Shirt Mens Size M/L Blue Workout Performance Gym Stretch Training *READ* Vintage Kappa Silver Pullover Sweatshirt with Pockets XL Kappa track jacket blue black size small KAPPA ROYAL BLUE SHINY SILKY SOCCER FOOTBALL SHORTS – SIZE MEDIUM Vintage 1999 KAPPA Vasco Da Gama Soccer Football Polo T-Shirt Jersey L VTG ACE kappa RETRO STYLE Barcelona (Barça) 93/95 HOME Men’s Jersey – Size L (fits M) AUTHENTIC Kappa Sassuolo 2015-16 Long Sleeves Polo – Men (M) LEEDS UNITED FOOTBALL SOCCER SHORTS 100 YEARS CANTENARY KAPPA GARA sz L MEN BLUE Kappa men’s slim fit black track jacket large full zip Kappa Black and Gray Bomber Kappa Fleece 1/4 Zip Sweatshirt Mens XL Grey Round Texel Catamaran Regatta Race Kappa Track Jacket Men’s Size 3XL Black Black Violet 222 Banda Anniston – NEW Vintage Shirt Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Crew Neck Sweatshirt 1960? Old! Kappa Rogue Valley Soccer Club Soccer Jersey Number 10 Size L Kappa men’s logo tape artem 2 track jacket in Multi – size 2X Kappa Varsity Jacket Xl Mens Pullover Fleece Hoodie