Signed
Pattern Recognition
Signed first edition, 2003
Pattern Recognition is the first novel in William Gibson’s Blue Ant Trilogy. The story follows Cayce Pollard, a marketing consultant with an acute and involuntary sensitivity to logos and brand imagery, who is hired by a global advertising agency to identify the source of a series of anonymously released video clips circulating online. As Cayce traces the footage across multiple continents, she becomes drawn into a web of corporate influence and internet subcultures, each competing to impose meaning on ambiguous data.
Set in the unsettled aftermath of September 11, the novel depicts a world shaped less by overt crisis than by uncertainty, anxiety, and informational overload. Online communities form around the video fragments, searching for coherence and intention where none is clearly visible. Cayce’s investigation unfolds in an environment where branding, surveillance, and cultural signals exert constant pressure, and where the impulse to find meaning in patterns can become indistinguishable from the truth itself.
Signed copy. Signed by Gibson on a special page bound-in by the publisher.
Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. New York: Putnam, 2003. Locus Award shortlist (2004). British Science Fiction Award nominee (2004). Green Mountain Book Award nominee (2006). ISBN: 0399149864. #10171.
Fine in fine dust jacket.
Set in the unsettled aftermath of September 11, the novel depicts a world shaped less by overt crisis than by uncertainty, anxiety, and informational overload. Online communities form around the video fragments, searching for coherence and intention where none is clearly visible. Cayce’s investigation unfolds in an environment where branding, surveillance, and cultural signals exert constant pressure, and where the impulse to find meaning in patterns can become indistinguishable from the truth itself.
Signed copy. Signed by Gibson on a special page bound-in by the publisher.
Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. New York: Putnam, 2003. Locus Award shortlist (2004). British Science Fiction Award nominee (2004). Green Mountain Book Award nominee (2006). ISBN: 0399149864. #10171.
Fine in fine dust jacket.
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