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Original Title:	Pattern Recognition
ISBN:	0425198685 (ISBN13: 9780425198681)
Edition Language:	English URL http://williamgibsonbooks.com/books/pattern.asp
Series:	Blue Ant #1
Characters:	Hubertus Bigend, Cayce Pollard
Literary Awards:	Locus Award Nominee for Best Science Fiction Novel (2004), Arthur C. Clarke Award Nominee (2004), British Science Fiction Association Award Nominee for Best Novel (2004), Mary Shelley Award for Outstanding Fictional Work (2004)

Pattern Recognition (Blue Ant #1) Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 367 pages

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Cayce Pollard is an expensive, spookily intuitive market-research consultant. In London on a job, she is offered a secret assignment: to investigate some intriguing snippets of video that have been appearing on the Internet. An entire subculture of people is obsessed with these bits of footage, and anybody who can create that kind of brand loyalty would be a gold mine for Cayce's client. But when her borrowed apartment is burgled and her computer hacked, she realizes there's more to this project than she had expected.

Still, Cayce is her father's daughter, and the danger makes her stubborn. Win Pollard, ex-security expert, probably ex-CIA, took a taxi in the direction of the World Trade Center on September 11 one year ago, and is presumed dead. Win taught Cayce a bit about the way agents work. She is still numb at his loss, and, as much for him as for any other reason, she refuses to give up this newly weird job, which will take her to Tokyo and on to Russia. With help and betrayal from equally unlikely quarters, Cayce will follow the trail of the mysterious film to its source, and in the process will learn something about her father's life and death.

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Title	:	Pattern Recognition (Blue Ant #1)
Author	:	William Gibson
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 367 pages
Published	:	February 2005 by Berkley Books (first published February 3rd 2003)
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Fiction. Cyberpunk. Mystery. Thriller. Science Fiction Fantasy. Novels

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"We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition."Pattern Recognition is a capsule from which paranoia gradually blossoms. Earth is a microcosm, really, in the great span of things, but the rapid onset of technology and connection have had the ironic downside of making it feel as small as it is, tightly webbed yet somehow immensely lonely.Predictable as it might be for me to say it, this novel

2018 re-read.I wrote the below review in March 2015, obviously still not really sure what I had just read. When reading for pleasure (and a lot of the time truth be told) I am a simple man wholl go after a laugh if theres one to be had and I did then. But I knew I liked the book and I also knew there was more to the book than I realized.As readers, we must acknowledge our mortality and in so doing I am conscious of this fact when I consider re-reading a book. Theres only so much time and there

Definitely the most accessible Gibson novel written up to this point in his bibliography - it lacks the complex density of Neuromancer and is pretty rooted in the here-and-now. Also unlike his previous novels, Pattern Recognition only follows one protagonist, Cayce Pollard, instead of jumping between several entwining storylines.Gibson's portrayal of internet groups and internet friendships feels very authentic, especially when compared with fellow sci-fi author Cory Doctorow's. The mysterious

It'll happen one day, you'll see. William Gibson WILL right an ending that resembles something other then a last ditch attempt from a man desperate not to default on his contract. It will not stink of a man who has just watched the sunrise with a headful of Jack Daniels. No it will be thematically fufilling, and tie up and enrich the man threads that have wound through the novel like a tapestry. Giving these rich themes, imagery, and characters the proper glory rather then merely tarnishing

I was hoping to be blown away by the legendary William Gibson (none of whose legendary books I have read), but I found that Pattern Recognition reminded me a lot of Reamde by Neal Stephenson: it's a pacey, interesting techno-thriller that just never quite reached the peak of Awesome. I found Gibson's writing to be stronger than Stephenson's, but his characterization weaker.The main character is Cayce (pronounced "Case") Pollard, who has one of those odd freelance consultant jobs that can only

riveting. plus I felt hip reading it.

Terrific. I happened to pick it up because of (you guessed it) my five senses/body project. And this novel was so good that now I have to go read or re-read all of William Gibson.