http://www.salon.com/tech/books/2003/02/13/gibson/print.html
If anyone's interested in the full text, let me know.
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Nodal point
William Gibson talks about how his new present-day novel, "Pattern
Recognition," processes the apocalyptic mind-set of a post-9/11 world.
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By Andrew Leonard
Feb. 13, 2003 | "You're experiencing apophenia," William Gibson
tells me, near the end of an interview.
I had just asked him what the significance is of the fact that Cayce
Pollard, the protagonist in his new novel, "Pattern Recognition," has a
first name that sounds exactly like that of Case, the protagonist in
Gibson's first novel, "Neuromancer." Has he, in some obscure way, come full
circle? "Neuromancer" unleashed a vision of the future that has become more
real ever since the novel was published; "Pattern Recognition" is set in the
very recent past, in a world that becomes more bizarre and unreal the closer
you look at it.
But Gibson denies that there is any significance. It's just coincidence. I'm
just being apophenic.
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