Pattern Recognition Summary
William Gibson

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Pattern Recognition Summary

Cayce Pollard is a self employed cool hunter. She makes her living by contracting out her unique ability to determine ahead of time which logos, products and advertising campaigns will work and which won't. Hubertus Bigend runs a multinational company called Blue Ant and hires Cayce's services, requiring her to go to London - a place she refers to as mirror world. This contract will keep her from her New York...

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William Gibson Biographies (3)

William (Ford) Gibson

6,634 words, approx. 23 pages

No other Canadian speculative fiction writer, and possibly no other Canadian writer of fiction, has had as great an impact on late-twentieth-century culture as has William Gibson. Beginning with a ser... Read more

William Gibson

4,954 words, approx. 17 pages

Creator of the concept "Cyberspace," science-fiction author William Gibson developed a new fictional landscape for his edgy work--a hallucinatory three-dimensional region built from computer data gath... Read more

William Gibson

3,024 words, approx. 11 pages

When science fiction author William Gibson wrote his first two novels, Neuromancer and Count Zero, on a manual typewriter, he knew almost nothing about computers. "When people started talking about th... Read more