Pattern Recognition is a novel by science fiction writer William Gibson published in 2003. Set in August and September 2002, the story follows Cayce Pollard, a 32-year-old marketing consultant who has a psychological sensitivity to corporate symbols. The action takes place in London, Tokyo, and Moscow as Cayce judges the effectiveness of a proposed corporate symbol and is hired to seek the creators of film clips anonymously posted to the internet.

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  • Pattern Recognition is a novel by science fiction writer William Gibson published in 2003. Set in August and September 2002, the story follows Cayce Pollard, a 32-year-old marketing consultant who has a psychological sensitivity to corporate symbols. The action takes place in London, Tokyo, and Moscow as Cayce judges the effectiveness of a proposed corporate symbol and is hired to seek the creators of film clips anonymously posted to the internet. The novel's central theme involves the examination of the human desire to detect patterns or meaning and the risks of finding patterns in meaningless data. Other themes include methods of interpretation of history, cultural familiarity with brand names, and tensions between art and commercialization. The September 11, 2001 attacks are used as a motif representing the transition to the new century. Critics identify influences in Pattern Recognition from Thomas Pynchon’s post-structuralist detective story The Crying of Lot 49. The novel is Gibson's eighth and the first to be set in the contemporary world. Like his previous work, it has been classified as a science fiction and postmodern novel, with the action unfolding along a thriller plot line. Critics approved of the writing but found the plot unoriginal and some of the language distracting. The book peaked at #4 on the New York Times Best Seller list and was shortlisted for the 2004 Arthur C. Clarke Award and the British Science Fiction Association Award. (en)
  • Identification des schémas (titre original : Pattern Recognition) est un roman de William Gibson paru en 2003 et publié en France en 2004 aux éditions Au Diable Vauvert. (fr)
  • Распознавание образов — роман американского писателя-фантаста Уильяма Гибсона. (ru)
  • 《模式识别》（'）為美国科幻小说家威廉·吉布森於2003年出版之小说。此书為吉布森第一部关于当代社会的作品，也是第一部直接提及911事件的文学作品之一。 本书改编的一部同名电影《模式识别》预计将在2008年正式上映。 (zh)
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  • Original 1st edition cover (en)
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  • ISBN 0-399-14986-4 (en)
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  • Pattern Recognition (en)
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  • 368 pp (hardcover) (en)
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  • The future is there ... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become. And from where they are, the past behind us will look nothing at all like the past we imagine behind us now. ... I only know that the one constant in history is change: The past changes. Our version of the past will interest the future about the extent we're interested in whatever past the Victorians believed in. It simply won't seem very relevant. (en)
  • [W]e have no idea, now, of who or what the inhabitants of our future might be. In that sense, we have no future. Not in the sense that our grandparents had a future, or thought they did. Fully imagined cultural futures were the luxury of another day, one in which 'now' was of some greater duration. For us, of course, things can change so abruptly, so violently, so profoundly, that futures like our grandparents' have insufficient 'now' to stand on. We have no future because our present is too volatile. ... We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition. (en)
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  • 2003-02-03 (xsd:date)
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  • Cayce Pollard (echoing the views of Parkaboy), Pattern Recognition, pages 59. (en)
  • Hubertus Bigend, ''Pattern Recognition'', pages 58–59. (en)
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  • Pattern Recognition (en)
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  • Pattern Recognition is a novel by science fiction writer William Gibson published in 2003. Set in August and September 2002, the story follows Cayce Pollard, a 32-year-old marketing consultant who has a psychological sensitivity to corporate symbols. The action takes place in London, Tokyo, and Moscow as Cayce judges the effectiveness of a proposed corporate symbol and is hired to seek the creators of film clips anonymously posted to the internet. (en)
  • Identification des schémas (titre original : Pattern Recognition) est un roman de William Gibson paru en 2003 et publié en France en 2004 aux éditions Au Diable Vauvert. (fr)
  • Распознавание образов — роман американского писателя-фантаста Уильяма Гибсона. (ru)
  • 《模式识别》（'）為美国科幻小说家威廉·吉布森於2003年出版之小说。此书為吉布森第一部关于当代社会的作品，也是第一部直接提及911事件的文学作品之一。 (zh)
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  • Pattern Recognition (novel) (en)
  • Identification des schémas (fr)
  • Распознавание образов (роман) (ru)
  • 模式识别 (小说) (zh)
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