Will I love Pattern Recognition?

Reading Gibson is like going home, but it's a home that's carefully designed to fascinate and frighten you in equal parts. His descriptions of scenes and settings are enough to keep me engrossed in his books; his carefully woven plots are the icing on the cake.

William Gibson, “The Father of Cyberpunk,” is responsible for much of our current technology.

In Pattern Recognition, however, Gibson isn’t writing about a future decades away, but just a hint ahead, enough for us to think that the future may well be more intriguing than the present—and to understand its deep roots in the past. Through Cayce Pollard, with her allergy to bad branding, Gibson navigates the brittle edge of fashionable London, weaving in a dark documentary in Russia, a series of film stills rising like fish to the surface of the internet, and a father lost in the aftermath… show more.