Pattern Recognition [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]

Gibson, William

ISBN 10: 0399149864 / ISBN 13: 9780399149863

Published by G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2003

About this Item

New in new dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the HALF-TITLE page (signature only). 1st edition, 1st printing, complete number line. New, unread copy with dust jacket in a protective mylar sleeve. A Blue Ant trilogy novel by the Hugo Award-, Nebula Award-, Philip K. Dick Award-, Prix Aurora Award-, Ditmar Award-, Seiun Award-, EFF Pioneer Award-, and Damon Knight Grand Master-winning author of the Bridge trilogy and the Jackpot Trilogy. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Pattern Recognition [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]
• Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0399149864
• ISBN 13: 9780399149863
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

As the author of Neuromancer, William Gibson is credited with having coined the term "cyberspace" and envisioned the Internet-and its effects on daily life-before any such things existed. Many of his descriptions and metaphors have entered the culture as images of human relationships in the "wired" age. This is his first novel set firmly in the present.