http://xenotropic.vox.com/library/posts/tags/best+07/page/1/ en Vox Sat, 29 Dec 2007 11:02:59 -0800 Copyright 2007 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss best 07 http://xenotropic.vox.com/library/post/qotd-best-book-of-07.html?_c=feed-rss-full 80 nobody@vox.com(Xenotrope) http://xenotropic.vox.com/library/post/qotd-best-book-of-07.html?_c=feed-rss-full http://xenotropic.vox.com/library/post/qotd-best-book-of-07.html?_c=feed-rss-full Sat, 29 Dec 2007 11:02:59 -0800 <blockquote><p>What&#39;s the best book you read this year?</p><p>Definitely <em>Pattern Recognition</em> by William Gibson, the famous grandpappy of cyberpunk.&#160; Though it was - for me, and most other Gibson fans - those early &quot;Sprawl&quot; books like <em>Neuromancer</em> and <em>Count Zero</em> that warmed me to his work, and the later interweaved series, which wove together <em>Idoru</em>, <em>Virtual Light</em> and <em>All Tomorrow&#39;s Parties</em> into an intensely satisfying brew of near-future speculative fiction, that kept that warm spot hot, I&#39;d have to say <em>Pattern Recognition</em> is now my favourite by Gibson.</p><p>It&#39;s not cyberpunk at all, really. It takes place in a believable present-time.&#160; And the lead narrative character, a woman of indeterminate age named Cayce Pollard, has a very odd defect which is also the ability upon which she makes her living - or possibly, dying...</p><p>She has what I&#39;d term a strange relationship with corporate logos.&#160; Would, that is, if it were not so similar to my own syndrome concerning them.<br /></p></blockquote> <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d414172cb5685e00e398ccd5a20003?_c=feed-rss-full">Send to a friend</a> </p> qotd best book best 07