A Thing I’ve (re-)Read 03/2026: Mona Lisa Overdrive, by William Gibson

The third book of the Sprawl-Trilogy… I don’t want to say “wraps up”, because that’s not what’s happening, but it finishes telling the events set in motion with the Straylight-run.

It brings back characters from the other two, mostly as companions for the POV-characters of this one, and gives closure on some others, and a bunch of context on how the events at Straylight and the Matrix-entities of the second book connect to each other. The ending is a lot of “everyone riding into their own sunset” and the book is mostly the ways there, but as the closing title of a trilogy it works pretty well.

It also would not work well standing alone, so… go read the Sprawl books. They sure are Something, and I think they hold up pretty well.