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Jun 24, 2004 pattern recognition a pulsating technothriller by william gibson, bestselling author of neuromancercayce pollard has been flown to london. Suspenseful, wry, and elegantly written, it is his most. Pdf the brand as cognitive map in william gibsons pattern. William gibson is a prophet and a satirist, a black comedian and an outstanding architect of cool. American novel dossier konstantinou pattern recognition 69 gathering. This kind of technology would be quite at home in william gibson s new novel, pattern recognition. Like and then she hears the sound of a helicopter, from somewhere behind her and, turning, sees the long white beam of light sweeping the dead ground as it comes, like a lighthouse gone mad from loneliness, and searching that barren ground as foolishly, as. In the end, william gibsons novels are all about sadness a very distinctive and particular sadness.
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