Talk:Mona Lisa Overdrive

Factory near Chicago
I've been trying to figure out where in the book it's mentioned that Factory is near Chicago, but I can't come up with anything but vague references to Cleveland. Is this accurate? Rnb (talk) 03:46, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
 * My pirated text file of the book (version 1.1) does not contain the word Chicago. Here's a relevant excerpt from "In a Lonely Place":

Slick remembered crossing the Solitude on foot. He'd been scared that the Korsakov's would come back, that he'd forget where he was and drink cancer-water from the slimed red puddles on the rusty plain. Red scum and dead birds floating with their wings spread. The trucker from Tennessee had told him to walk west from the highway, he'd hit two-lane blacktop inside an hour and get a ride down to Cleveland, but it felt like longer than an hour now and he wasn't so sure which way was west and this place was spooking him, this junkyard scar like a giant had stomped it flat. Once he saw somebody far away, up on a low ridge, and waved. The figure vanished, but he walked that way, no longer trying to skirt the puddles, slogging through them, until he came to the ridge and saw that it was the wingless hulk of an airliner half-buried in rusted cans. He made his way up the incline along a path where feet had flattened the cans, to a square opening that had been an emergency exit. Stuck his head inside and saw hundreds of tiny heads suspended from the concave ceiling. He froze there, blinking in the sudden shade, until what he was seeing made some kind of sense. The pink plastic heads of dolls, their nylon hair tied up into topknots and the knots stuck into thick black tar, dangling like fruit. Nothing else, only a few ragged slabs of dirty green foam, and he knew he didn't want to stick around to find out whose place it was.

He'd headed south then, without knowing it, and found Factory. Skomorokh 04:02, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeah, that was the passage I read earlier tonight in my re-reading, and I recalled this entry's assertion that it was near Chicago. I'm just curious where that came from, but so far I'm coming up empty. Rnb (talk) 04:10, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

I too don't know of any references to Chicago, but I think Factory may be in New Jersey (or thereabouts). I believe there are references to Little Bird being from New Jersey, and when Molly/Sally is taking Angela and Mona to Factory in "Too Much" (sec. 39), Gibson writes: The first voice had come when they'd been driving south, after Molly'd brought Angie in the copter. That one had just hissed and croaked and said something over and over, about New Jersey and numbers on a map. About two hours after that, Molly'd slid the hover across a rest area and said they were in New Jersey. I'm going to edit the page to reflect this. Fitzburgh (talk) 00:45, 27 July 2010 (UTC) While editing I saw that the article placed Factory in the Rust Belt, but the name of the surrounding area is referred to as the Solitude by Slick. Fitzburgh (talk) 00:51, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

"Allusions to the novel in popular culture" section
I've removed the following section from the article per WP:TRIVIA:

Skomorokh  20:00, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Some of this info has been edited back into the article, into the Influences section. I've split this into a Legacy section, but perhaps it should just be deleted? At least the bit about the Matrix trilogy being inspired by the Sprawl trilogy needs a source (it obviously was, but a source would be nice).

Kawayama (talk) 22:16, 4 September 2018 (UTC)