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Pollard is among a cult-like group of Internet obsessives that strives to find meaning and patterns within a mysterious collection of video moments, merely called "the footage," let loose onto the Internet by an unknown source. Her hobby and work collide when a megalomaniac client hires her to track down whoever is behind the footage. Cayce's quest will take her in and out of harm's way in a high-stakes game that ultimately coincides with her desire to reconcile her father’s disappearance during the September 11 attacks in New York.
Although he forgoes his usual future-think tactics, this is very much a William Gibson novel, more so for fans who realize that Gibson's brilliance lies not in constructing new futures but in using astute observations of present-day cultural flotsam to create those futures. With Pattern Recognition, Gibson skips the extrapolation and focuses his acumen on our confusing contemporary world, using the precocious Pollard to personify and humanize the uncertain anxiety, optimistic hope, and downright fear many feel when looking to the future. The novel is filled with Gibson's lyric descriptions and astute observations of modern life, making it worth the read for both cool hunters and their prey. --Jeremy Pugh
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Book Description Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Pattern Recognitionis William Gibson s best book since he rewrote all the rules inNeuromancer. Neil Gaiman, author ofAmerican Gods One of the first authentic and vital novels of the 21st century. The Washington Post Book WorldThe accolades and acclaim are endless for William Gibson's coast-to-coast bestseller. Set in the post-9/11 present, Pattern Recognition is the story of one woman's never-ending search for the now.Cayce Pollard is a new kind of prophet a world-renowned coolhunter who predicts the hottest trends. While in London to evaluate the redesign of a famous corporate logo, she s offered a different assignment: find the creator of the obscure, enigmatic video clips being uploaded to the internet footage that is generating massive underground buzz worldwide. Still haunted by the memory of her missing father a Cold War security guru who disappeared in downtown Manhattan on the morning of September 11, 2001 Cayce is soon traveling through parallel universes of marketing, globalization, and terror, heading always for the still point where the three converge. From London to Tokyo to Moscow, she follows the implications of a secret as disturbing and compelling as the twenty-first century promises to be. 400 pp. Englisch. Seller Inventory # 9780425198681
Book Description Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -'Pattern Recognition is William Gibson's best book since he rewrote all the rules in Neuromancer.'-Neil Gaiman, author of American Gods'One of the first authentic and vital novels of the 21st century.'-The Washington Post Book WorldThe accolades and acclaim are endless for William Gibson's coast-to-coast bestseller. Set in the post-9/11 present, Pattern Recognition is the story of one woman's never-ending search for the now.Cayce Pollard is a new kind of prophet-a world-renowned 'coolhunter' who predicts the hottest trends. While in London to evaluate the redesign of a famous corporate logo, she's offered a different assignment: find the creator of the obscure, enigmatic video clips being uploaded to the internet-footage that is generating massive underground buzz worldwide. Still haunted by the memory of her missing father-a Cold War security guru who disappeared in downtown Manhattan on the morning of September 11, 2001-Cayce is soon traveling through parallel universes of marketing, globalization, and terror, heading always for the still point where the three converge. From London to Tokyo to Moscow, she follows the implications of a secret as disturbing-and compelling-as the twenty-first century promises to be. Seller Inventory # 9780425198681
Book Description Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Pattern Recognitionis William Gibson s best book since he rewrote all the rules inNeuromancer. Neil Gaiman, author ofAmerican Gods One of the first authentic and vital novels of the 21st century. The Washington Post Book WorldThe accolades and acclaim are endless for William Gibson's coast-to-coast bestseller. Set in the post-9/11 present, Pattern Recognition is the story of one woman's never-ending search for the now.Cayce Pollard is a new kind of prophet a world-renowned coolhunter who predicts the hottest trends. While in London to evaluate the redesign of a famous corporate logo, she s offered a different assignment: find the creator of the obscure, enigmatic video clips being uploaded to the internet footage that is generating massive underground buzz worldwide. Still haunted by the memory of her missing father a Cold War security guru who disappeared in downtown Manhattan on the morning of September 11, 2001 Cayce is soon traveling through parallel universes of marketing, globalization, and terror, heading always for the still point where the three converge. From London to Tokyo to Moscow, she follows the implications of a secret as disturbing and compelling as the twenty-first century promises to be. 400 pp. Englisch. Seller Inventory # 9780425198681