In "Pattern recognition" by William Gibson , mystery and/or spy genre of fiction fits this novel as it is full of mystery. As the novel starts there is a famous F:F:F web add going around on internet which is creating a lot of tension betwenn various companies and getting a lot of public attention. Blue ant hired chayce as a consultant but later offered her a job to find out who is behind all this add and why are they making it which is completely mysterious and even throw off Chayce because she didn't know why are they giving her this job and what it is? On the other hand Chayce also finds out that someone is sneaking in Damien's house to get information about her personal stuff which she mainly think is Dorotea. Furthermore Chayce own work habits are confusing which she clearly not yet told, sometimes she likes her job aspects but some times she completely hated it as she describes her personal hate against some of the trademarks and logo which surprisingly Dorotea also know about and Chayce quoted it in these line "I'm allergic. To certain trademarks/I know she does"(p164). As Chayce went to Tokyo with her friend Boone chu to find out who made F:F:F add that got such high sensation with the help of her friends from her social network site. As she was working there, she finds out that someone is following her to know about her every step which puzzles me that what Chayce knows that everyone want to know. Then when they come back to London Boone Chu tries to get answer from Bigend because he think Bigend is the one who sent those men's behind Chayce this creates the feeling of something fishy as if Bigend is the one who sent those men's but then why did he send Chayce in first place and if he didn't trust her than why did he offer her partnership in his company this story is just revolving around in a circle. After listening to Boone Chu, Bigend start asking Chayce about her trip to get every piece of info from her which ultimately makes her not to trust Bigend because of his change in behavior. So there is lot of trust issue going on and which creates a sense that Gibson is trying to convey a message that science changes the way people behaves and also increases competition.
Internet and the prospects of online social networks
Internet plays a major role in this novel in setting up plot and in transferring of information from one character to another character. Chayce trusted more parkaboy then any of her reality friends whom she met face to face. Even though she had never seen parkaboy and don't know who he is she trusted him and even followed his every piece of advice. Email also act as a tool to bring long distance relationships closer as when Damien send her a email of what's going with him in Russia when Chayce is in London it sort a feels like internet had shrunk the world and even it helps to travel information faster even though you are sitting miles away from your friend. Cayce in this novel frequently used forum to check what's going on her field of work and her recent updates from her social network friends especially from parkaboy. So we can see there are lots of things going on which revolves around Internet and we can also say that Internet act as linkage between various mysterious characters of this novel.
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