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Title: A retro-disappointment
Review: This is the first book I read by William Gibson and I thought it was entertaining, gripping, but light. And disappointingly not science fiction in any possible use of the term. Then I read Neuromancer, which as advertised is a great creative prediction of a cyberworld that doesn't entirely hang together but is immensely enjoyable. Pattern Recognition, set beside Neuromancer, is a fine airport book.
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