Mona Lisa Overdrive

[sabrina]

Everybody needs to read Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson.
It appears to be about the Hollywood replacement project.

1. It has a character who is a famous actress named Angie who gets a double and they use plastic surgery on the double to make it look like her!!

2. It has a character named Hilton and hotels play a large part in the story

3. A while back we learned that Britney Spears has a Mona Lisa program which was evident in her song/video by the same name and she also has an alter ego named Mona Lisa according to the media.

www.mtv.com/bands/a/alter_egos_news_feature_050321/

4. It talks about a very rich family who began cloning their kids and the brothers and sisters married each other and has kids.

5. It talks about people who can hack into cyberspace or the "Matrix," as the book calls it using their minds. The book was published in 1988 long BEFORE the movie came out.

6. It also has characters who are involved in the underworld sex trafficking drug smuggling (specifically mentions the Yakuza Japanese Mafia) and other underworld groups being involved and having ties to film industry and big money corporations.




The book appears to be an insider writing about the Illuminati's exploits, as fiction which they often do. Its interesting that this book has not been turned into a movie. The book is written very disjointedly and appaears to be the work of someone under mind control.

The book has trigger codes in it such as: "Antarctica starts here" in italics

The video for the Britney song Mona Lisa also mentions cloning.

All of this can't be coincidence.

[beatlies]

Excellent find, sabrina. Thanks.

William Gibson was a huge hit author in the mid-eighties to early 1990s "cyberspace/virtual reality"-chic period.

Conrad Hilton (Pari$ Hilton, recently arrested, is of his family tree),
and his worldwide Hilton hotel chain were known for their involvement with the CIA and for being CIA fronts and spying stations.

"Angie": fascist scumbag Jon Voigt's daughter-Angelina Jolie's first "serious" Hollywood movie was Hackers, about teenage Gibson-esque computer experts and avengers against the computerized Big Brother establishment. That was also the real Angelina Jolie's last movie, apparently. It's been nothing but Fangelina-imposters since then (Hackers released in 1995).

"The Matrix' hmmm....

[sherlok]

I believe this book is third of a series of three.

[lucy]

Great find...

[beatlies]

"The one and only BILLY SHEARS...." --- "SALLY SHEARS" of Mona Lisa Overdrive.... WIlliam Beedle Shears Holden Bridge on the River Kwai


Mona Lisa Overdrive
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Mona Lisa Overdrive

Cover of first edition (hardcover)
Author William Gibson
Series the Sprawl trilogy
Genre(s) Science fiction
Publisher Victor Gollancz Ltd
Publication date 1988
Media type Print (hardcover and paperback)
Pages 251 pp
ISBN ISBN 0-553-05250-0
ISBN 0-553-28174-7
OCLC Number 17876008
Dewey Decimal 813/.54 19
LC Classification PS3557.I2264 M65 1988
Preceded by Count Zero

Mona Lisa Overdrive is a cyberpunk novel by William Gibson published in 1988 and the final novel of the Sprawl trilogy, following Neuromancer and Count Zero. It takes place eight years after the events of Count Zero and is set, as were its predecessors, in The Sprawl. The novel was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel, the Hugo Award for Best Novel, and the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel in 1989.[1]

[edit] Plot summary
Taking place eight years after the events of Count Zero and fifteen years after Neuromancer, the story is formed from several interconnecting plot threads, and also features characters from Gibson's previous works (such as Molly Millions, the razor-fingered mercenary from Neuromancer).

One of the plot threads concerns Mona, an innocent young prostitute who has a more-than-passing resemblance to famed Simstim superstar Angie Mitchell. Mona is hired by shady individuals for a "gig" which later turns out to be part of a plot to abduct Angie.

The second story focuses on a young Japanese girl named Kumiko, daughter of a Yakuza boss sent to London to keep her safe while her father engages in a gang war with other top Yakuza leaders. In London she is cared for by one of her father's retainers, who is also a powerful member of the London Mob. She meets Molly Millions (having altered her appearance and now calling herself "Sally Shears," in order to conceal her identity from hostile parties who are implied to be pursuing her), who takes the girl under her wing.

The third story thread follows a reclusive artist named Slick Henry, who lives in a place named Factory in the Dog Solitude a large, poisoned expanse of deserted factories and dumps, perhaps in New Jersey. Slick Henry is a convicted (and punished) car thief. As a result of the repetitive brainwashing nature of his punishment, he spends his days creating large robotic sculptures and periodically suffers episodes of time loss, returning to consciousness afterward with no memory of what he did during the blackout. He is hired by an acquaintance to look after the comatose "Count" (Bobby Newmark from the second novel, "Count Zero," who has hooked himself into a super-capacity cyber-harddrive called an Aleph). A theoretical "Aleph" would have the RAM memory capacity to literally contain all the data of reality. Enough that a memory construct of a person to contain the complete personality of the individual, and allow it to learn, grow and act independently.

The final plot line follows Angela Mitchell, famous simstim star and the girl from the second Sprawl novel Count Zero. Angie, thanks to brain manipulations by her father when she was a child, has always had the ability to access cyberspace directly (without a cyberspace deck), but drugs provided by her production company Sense/Net have severely impeded this ability.

The story of the reclusive artist that makes cybernetic sculptures is a reference to Mark Pauline of Survival Research Labs.[2]

[edit] References
^ "1989 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1989. Retrieved 2009-07-17.
^ Queen Victoria's Personal Spook, Psychic Legbreakers, Snakes and Catfood: An Interview with William Gibson and Tom Maddox
[edit] External links
Mona Lisa Overdrive at Worlds Without End
[hide]v • d • eWilliam Gibson

List of works · List of awards and nominations

Novels Sprawl trilogy Neuromancer · Count Zero · Mona Lisa Overdrive

Bridge trilogy Virtual Light · Idoru · All Tomorrow's Parties

Bigend books Pattern Recognition · Spook Country · Zero History

Other The Difference Engine (with Bruce Sterling)


Short stories "Fragments of a Hologram Rose" · "Johnny Mnemonic" · "The Gernsback Continuum" · "Hinterlands" · "New Rose Hotel" · "The Belonging Kind" · "Burning Chrome" · "Red Star, Winter Orbit" · "The Winter Market" · "Dogfight" · "Skinner's Room" · Burning Chrome collection

Nonfiction Agrippa (a book of the dead) · "Disneyland with the Death Penalty" · No Maps for These Territories

Characters Tessier-Ashpool · Molly Millions · Bobby Newmark · Rei Toei · Konrad · Cayce Pollard · Hubertus Bigend

Story elements Cyberspace · Megacorporation · Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics · The Sprawl · Raygun Gothic

Derivative works Neuromancer video game · Johnny Mnemonic film · New Rose Hotel film · "Kill Switch" · "First Person Shooter" · Node Magazine

[artemis]

How can I get this book?

[sherlok]

^ Amazon, Barnes & Noble, eBay

[beatlies]

www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1178509/pg1



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“I ACTUALLY think most people don’t want Google to answer their questions,” said the search giant’s chief executive, Eric Schmidt, in a recent and controversial interview. “They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next.” Do we really desire Google to tell us what we should be doing next? I believe that we do, though with some rather complicated qualifiers.

Science fiction never imagined Google, but it certainly imagined computers that would advise us what to do. HAL 9000, in “2001: A Space Odyssey,” will forever come to mind, his advice, we assume, eminently reliable — before his malfunction. But HAL was a discrete entity, a genie in a bottle, something we imagined owning or being assigned. Google is a distributed entity, a two-way membrane, a game-changing tool on the order of the equally handy flint hand ax, with which we chop our way through the very densest thickets of information. Google is all of those things, and a very large and powerful corporation to boot.

We have yet to take Google’s measure. We’ve seen nothing like it before, and we already perceive much of our world through it. We would all very much like to be sagely and reliably advised by our own private genie; we would like the genie to make the world more transparent, more easily navigable. Google does that for us: it makes everything in the world accessible to everyone, and everyone accessible to the world. But we see everyone looking in, and blame Google.

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[piper]

Aug 31, 2010 10:46:06 GMT -5 artemis said:

How can I get this book?

You can also read it online at Scribd.com

[artemis]

Thanks.