![]() Pattern Recognition explored, among other things, the nature and practice of advertising, the power of images and the subliminal code that helps determine success or failure in the global marketplace. ![]() But though they are set in what is recognizably the same world, these are distinctly different books. Like its predecessor, Spook Country depicts a world transformed by globalization, by the threat - and memory - of terrorist attacks, and by the presence of proliferating technologies. But with that book, he began a remarkable exploration of post-9/11 America that continues, with undiminished vigor, in Spook Country. In his way, Gibson has always written about the here and now. ![]() ![]() When, in 2003, Gibson abandoned science fiction to produce an up-to-the-minute mainstream novel called Pattern Recognition, it came as no real surprise. ![]()
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