Pattern Recognition

William Gibson

ISBN 10: 0241953537 / ISBN 13: 9780241953532

Published by Penguin Books Ltd, 2011

About this Item

Pattern Recognition | William Gibson | Taschenbuch | Blue Ant | Kartoniert / Broschiert | Englisch | 2011 | Penguin Books Ltd | EAN 9780241953532 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, 22083 Hamburg, gpsr[at]petersen-buchimport[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Pattern Recognition
• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241953537
• ISBN 13: 9780241953532
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 197W x 129H x 38D millimeters 197 millimeters width by 129 millimeters height by 38 millimeters depth
• Weight: 261 grams
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

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Review

The first of William Gibson's usually futuristic novels to be set in the present, Pattern Recognition is a masterful snapshot of modern consumer culture and hipster esoterica. Set in London, Tokyo, and Moscow, Pattern Recognition takes the reader on a tour of a global village inhabited by power-hungry marketeers, industrial saboteurs, high-end hackers, Russian mob bosses, Internet fan-boys, techno archeologists, washed-out spies, cultural documentarians, and our heroine Cayce Pollard--a soothsaying "cool hunter" with an allergy to brand names.

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