num_pages: 356
description: We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition...Cayce Pollard is a new kind of prophet—a world-renowned "coolhunter" who predicts the hottest trends. While in London to evaluate the redesign of a famous corporate logo, she's offered a different assignment: find the creator of the obscure, enigmatic video clips being uploaded on the Internet—footage that is generating massive underground buzz worldwide.Still haunted by the memory of her missing father—a Cold War security guru who disappeared in downtown Manhattan on the morning of September 11, 2001—Cayce is soon traveling through parallel universes of marketing, globalization, and terror, heading always for the still point where the three converge. From London to Tokyo to Moscow, she follows the implications of a secret as disturbing—and compelling—as the twenty-first century promises to be...
language: English
title: Pattern Recognition
titlecomplete: Pattern Recognition (Blue Ant, #1)
characters: Hubertus Bigend, Cayce Pollard
genres: Thriller, Cyberpunk, Novels, Science Fiction, Espionage, Science Fiction Fantasy, Literature, Mystery, Fiction, Speculative Fiction
ratings_count: 50111
places: Moscow, London, England, Tokyo
series: Blue Ant
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Science Fiction Novel, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Arthur C. Clarke Award, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: British Science Fiction Association Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Mary Shelley Award for Outstanding Fictional Work
publisher: Berkley Trade