Pattern Recognition
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Written by William Gibson.
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In a post-9/11 world, the present is as unpredictable as any future...Paid to predict the hottest trends, Cayce Pollard is in London to evaluate the redesign of a famous corporate logo when 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.
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Jerrett Taylor thinks this book is Excellent.
Very different in setting from Gibson's other works, this is set in the current day rather than a cyberpunk future world. It's very obviously still Gibson though, and he paints an interesting portrait of our society, in all it's corporate and consumeristic glory.
The plot of the book is essentialy the protaganist, Cayce, tracking down of the author to peices of 'footage' which are seemingly unordered video clips that are part of a greater whole, being released one by one anonymously on the internet. Gibson comes up with some interesting observations about where the lines between art, business, and marketing are drawn, and where they are disappearing or merging in today's culture.