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Few authors can be credited with birthing a genre, but with his remarkable science fiction novel, Neuromancer, William Gibson did just that. As the father of "cyberpunk", Gibson is credited with the phrase "cyberspace" and consequently has made a place for himself in the annals of great science fiction. As sort of a modern-day fortuneteller, Gibson glimpsed the Internet and all its trappings long before it was a blip on the world's radar, and though his latest novel, Pattern Recognition, is set in the present, his observations are no less astute.