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Pattern recognition

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An edition of Pattern Recognition (2002)

Pattern recognition

  • 3.83 ·
  • 48 Ratings
  • 90 Want to read
  • 3 Currently reading
  • 69 Have read

"Cayce Pollard is an expensive, spookily intuitive American design consultant with an international reputation. In London to evaluate the redesign of a famous corporate logo, she's offered a very different assignment: find the creator of the haunting, enigmatic video clips being uploaded to the internet by a party or parties unknown. Followers of this footage, and Cayce herself is one, are generating massive underground buzz, worldwide - and her new employer values buzz infinitely more than money." "But with her London apartment burgled, her email hacked, and the records of her Manhattan therapist stolen, she begins to suspect that more is at stake here, to someone, than she could ever have imagined." "Still, Cayce is her father's daughter. Win Pollard, Cold War security guru, was never a man to be deterred by the unimaginable. But the Cold War is over, and Win is missing, presumed dead, somewhere in Manhattan on the morning of September 11, 2001.".

"Cayce is soon phase-shifting through parallel universes of marketing, globalization, and terror, heading always for the still point where the three converge. From London to Tokyo to Moscow, and finally into the eerie aftermath of a Soviet eco-disaster, she follows the implications of a secret as disturbing, and compelling, as the twenty-first century promises to be." "A secret that may, ultimately, belong to her alone."--BOOK JACKET.

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Viking
Language
English
Pages
356

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Identification des schémas
2006, Librairie générale française
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Pattern recognition
2003, G.P. Putnam's Sons
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Pattern recognition
2003, Viking
in English
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2003, Viking
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London

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813.54
Library of Congress
PS3557.I2264 P37 2003, PR9199.3.G514

The Physical Object

Pagination
356 pages
Number of pages
356

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL32349078M
Internet Archive
patternrecogniti0000gibs
ISBN 10
0670875597
ISBN 13
9780670875597
OCLC/WorldCat
49639583

Work Description

One of the most influential and imaginative writers of the past twenty years turns his attention to London - with dazzling results.Cayce Pollard owes her living to her pathological sensitivity to logos. In London to consult for the world's coolest ad agency, she finds herself catapulted, via her addiction to a mysterious body of fragmentary film footage, uploaded to the Web by a shadowy auteur, into a global quest for this unknown 'garage Kubrick'. Cayce becomes involved with an eccentric hacker, a vengeful ad executive, a defrocked mathematician, a Tokyo Otaku-coven known as Eye of the Dragon and, eventually, the elusive 'Kubrick' himself. William Gibson's new novel is about the eternal mystery of London, the coolest sneakers in the world, and life in (the former) USSR.

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