Customer Reviews
Razor girl shines - By: turner, 25 Oct 2007 
This along with neuromancer is a showcase for molly. The street samuri comes into her own in this multi layered effort. The sprawl comes alive along with the long reaching tendrils of a long forgotten advisory. All in alll a novel light years ahead of it's time.
SF NOIR...POETIC DREAMSCAPES OF A DISTOPIC FUTURE...(Part 3) - By: NeuroSplicer, 27 Sep 2007 I have read this masterpiece (together with the other two of the Sprawl series: NEUROMANCER & COUNT ZERO) during my university years, about a decade ago. Since then I have re-read it countless times.
Many a times the third book of a trilogy is published only to fulfill contractual obligations: this is definitely NOT the case here. Every one of those three is a standalone masterpiece.
Sure, the Sprawl trilogy defined cyberspace, wireheads, zaibatsu-controlled society & futuristic discontent. But this is not the reason why one enjoys these novels so much. It is the beautiful poetic language. The syncopated phrases. The direct effect of verbalized brand names. The noir feeling, rare at the time in a SF novel.
Wlliam Gibson had already reaped the fame & fortune from his first two novels. In this one you will find his images more bold, his phrases more relaxed & his writing more tight. Absolutely Beautiful!
Even reading only some pages brings up powerful imagery, unforgettable prose...
Start with NEUROMANCER. Then COUNT ZERO. And finallly this one.
A Masterpiece Trilogy!!! Own them alll!!!
Great conclusion to the trilogy - By: J. E. Davidson, 21 Jan 2005 It is a tribute to William Gibson that his vision of the near future was interesting enough to sustain three novels without any apparent strain.
If you liked the first two books in the series (Neuromancer & Count Zero) then you will like this one, for in many ways it is the strongest book of the three.
If you are unfamiliar with the first two books then this is not the place to start. There are too many references that will be incomprehensible.
Recommended
More Cool in the Sprawl - By: , 02 Dec 2004 It's just the way Gibson describes his universe. It's just so, COOL. Even with alll the violence & socio-economic polarisation, I'd love the chance to be put there, assuming I was accompanied by a lethal street assassin that is.
Bumping up the Overdrive Average (Two Stars! Ha! ) - By: , 06 Oct 2000 Gibson unites the themes & characters of Neuromancer & Count Zero in a blaze of icy glory. From the contaminated iron wastelands of the Sprawl to the cold anachronism of an aging London. From the endless internal landscapes of a huge lump of biochip to the attenuated life of the world's biggest star. Gibson takes us on a sad, elegant & sublime journey round the world & inside the dreams of man & machine. If you haven't met Molly, Bobby Zero, the Finn, Angie or 3-Jane before, you'll want to read the first two books to find out about them (They'll linger in your mind until you do). If you're already aquainted, you'll be pleased to hear that Gibson hasn't lost his touch with the either the old folk, or the new, introduced in this book. His themes, characters & style have matured, growing a little more abstract & difficult to handle. But hey, so have I & so does life! Indeed it's the aching similarities between the artificial reality that Gibson has created & the real thing which make this a work of literature & a thing of beauty. FIVE BIG, FAT, JUICY STARS for Mona Lisa Overdrive
