'Aliens have taken the place of angels'

[Joe Allonby]

On 7/19/05, David Casseres <david.casseres at gmail.com> wrote:
> That's a very good article, thanks for posting it.
> 
> She mentions William Gibson in passing, so here's a word or two about
> his last two books, All Tomorrow's Parties and Pattern Recognition.
> 
> He turned a corner with All Tomorrow's Parties.  Although it's the
> last part of a trilogy set in the near future and involving
> cybernetics, which reads as both science fiction and speculative
> fiction using Atwood's definitions, ATP itself does not read as genre
> fiction at all.  Not to me, anyway.  It left me intensely curious as
> to what he'd do next.
> 
> Pattern Recognition does not disappoint.  It takes place in the
> immediate present and technology is incidental.  Its themes include
> the struggle between art and manufactured taste, and alienation, and
> somehow, in the background, the September 11 attack in New York.  I
> think your average Pynchon reader would enjoy it.
> 
> David
> 
> 
I did.