Being a DSP nerd, when I first heard of William Gibson’s science fiction novel Pattern Recognition, I thought of Pattern Classification by Duda, Hart and Stork.
William Gibson has a peculiar writing style. I liked it a lot in Neuromancer and it made me read Pattern Recognition in a couple of sessions as well. What I find amazing is that his novels are such a gripping read despite the fact that most characters are not properly developed at all.
Unlike Gibson’s previous books, Pattern Recognition takes place in the present (or the recent past by now). To make it science fiction, Gibson gives the main character, Cayce, a superpower. That is what the title refers to.
I recommend this book wholeheartedly with the caveat that near the end, the story went a bit downhill.
On a random note, I keep forgetting to comment on this, but I like how you changed the links to a brighter blue. (You DID change the color, right?) Also, the new tagline. =)
yasmine: Yes, I did change the link color. First, I removed the underlining of the links because that interfered with the dots in Urdu text. But the link text was then indistinguishable from regular text, so I changed the color to blue. Glad you like it.
The tagline is stolen.
HI I am a random person, By the name of Cayce Duda, so the PATTERN of which this entry is written is very peculiar to me.