So far Pattern recognition reminds me of "The Gernsback Continuum", all that semiotic sickness biz...Inner space indeed!
"I suppose it started in London, in that bogus Greek taverna in
Battersea Park Road, with lunch on Cohen's corporate tab"..."He brought along a very
fashionably dressed young woman named Dialta Downes, who was virtually
chinless and evidently a noted pop-art historian. In retrospect, I see her
walking in beside Cohen under a floating neon sign that flashes THIS WAY
LIES MADNESS in huge sans-serif capitals".

Hermann Hesse reference?

IOTACISM 03:
http://iotar.8m.net ++ http://www.mjohnharrison.com ++ http://www.fisheye.demon.co.uk

That'd be great! Gernsback is one of my favorites!

If that isn't a call to read this new one, I don't know what is.


P.S.- nice name, R.U.R.