Mona Lisa Overdrive

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Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988) is a novel by William Gibson, a leading figure in the cyberpunk science fiction movement. This novel is set in the same universe as Gibson's earlier works, Neuromancer and Count Zero. In Mona Lisa Overdrive, characters have the ability to transfer their consciousness into computers, where they can influence or disrupt the real world. Gibson is known for coining the term "cyberspace," a computer-simulated reality that explores the nature of information and foreshadowed virtual reality technology.12

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The characters of Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988) can “die” into computers, where they may support or sabotage outer reality. After collaborating with writer Bruce Sterling on The Difference Engine (1990), a story set in Victorian England, Gibson returned to the subject of cyberspace in Virtual Light (1993).
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The characters of Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988) can “die” into computers, where they may support or sabotage outer reality. After collaborating with writer Bruce Sterling on The Difference Engine (1990), a story set in Victorian England, Gibson returned to the subject of cyberspace in Virtual Light (1993).
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