How long does it take to read Mona Lisa Overdrive?
Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson takes about 5 hours 52 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 3 of Sprawl trilogy
Previous: Count Zero
About 5 hours 52 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1987. 320 pages, about 88,000 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 47 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 52 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 40 minutes |
The page count is the median across 34 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Set eight years after the events of the previous novel in the Sprawl trilogy, this cyberpunk story weaves together several threads. A teenage prostitute named Mona, who strongly resembles a famous simstim star, is hired for a mysterious job. A young half-Japanese girl, Kumiko, is sent to London for safety while her yakuza father fights a gang war. A reclusive artist named Slick Henry builds giant robotic sculptures in a poisoned wasteland and is pressured into guarding a comatose man. Meanwhile, the star herself struggles with drugs that dull her direct access to cyberspace.
This summary was written by AI and checked by a second AI model. How these are chosen.
Subjects: Science fiction, Fiction, general, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Sprawl Trilogy, Canadian Fantasy fiction, Computers
