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Book reviews: Pattern Recognition: Reality bytes in a techno-fiction thriller
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PATTERN RECOGNITION
William Gibson
Viking, GBP 16.99
WILLIAM Gibson's new novel is a paranoid detective thriller which
takes as its focus the virus-like growth of anti-capitalist
subcultures on the internet. Set in contemporary London, Japan and
Russia, the book traces the erratic progress of its female
protagonist, Cayce Pollard, a displaced American design consultant
adrift in a baffling mirror-world of laptops, mobiles, disembodied
electronic friends and acute persecution mania.
Cayce, a convinced minimalist with an aversion to labels and
corporate culture, is summoned to London to ...
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PATTERN RECOGNITION
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; PATTERN RECOGNITION By William Gibson PUTNAM, 356 PP., $25.95 An anthropological study of Internet life, a technofantasy that impels the century-old dream of movies...trademark-allergic heroine Cayce on a transnational expedition to find the maker of phantom, cult-spawning Internet video clips. ...
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Writer calls this a very interesting time
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Prophets and Losses
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