Pattern Recognition

William Gibson - Pattern Recognition

URL: http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/

Blurb: The world is moving in dangerous new directions. And Cayce, wearied by flight fear and mirror-world angst, finds herself alone, with too many unanswered questions.
Who is downloading pornography on her computer? Why is she being followed? Can her partner, the charismatic Boone Chu, be trusted? What is the true value of the footage? And will her discovery of the most brilliant marketing ploy of this very new century lead Cayce any closer to finding her father, former Cold War security expert Win Pollard, a man so thoroughly and quietly missing that it might be impossible to prove him dead?

Why: Because it’s a Gibson novel, no way I was going to pass this one up. Besides that, it’s the first time I’ve read one of his novels real-time, in that he only finished it recently. The others (Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona-lisa Overdrive, etc etc) were all read many a year after they were printed. Gibson is one (if not the only one) of my favourite authors. Come on, the guy coined the term Cyberspace! (before it’s inception as we see it today!)

Thoughts: Wow. Excellent novel. Most thrilling aspect is the fact that modern times are now so futuristic that he didn’t have to write about the future, we’re living it now. All events that take place in the novel are so almost believable, and the style he slides into for the emails that zip to-and-fro between the characters just make this book so interesting, and so up my-alley. (In the things i’m interested in sense, not the sexual inuendo way) The way that he discusses and explains this so called “Footage”, and the flash-community that has grown internet-based to disect and puzzle over these fragments of movies make me want to scour the current internet for such items! Naturally it wouldn’t be Gibson without the use of huge super-organisations, so immense in power that money is nothing to these people, and once again he manages to create such super-powers (so much for governments these days right?)..

Great novel!.. 6 stars ;P

Posted by Christian 28 July 2003

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