Editing Pattern Recognition (novel) (section)

== Publication history ==
[[File:Pattern Recognition (novel) - covers.jpg|thumb|400px|Book covers for the (top left to right) North American (paperback), British (hard cover), British (paperback), Dutch, French, (bottom left to right) Spanish, Portuguese, German, Japanese, and Polish releases]]
The hardcover edition, released in February 2003, was published by the Penguin Group imprint [[G. P. Putnam's Sons]].{{full|date=April 2025}} [[Berkley Books]] published the [[Paperback#Trade paperback|trade paperback]] one year later, on February 3, 2004,{{full|date=April 2025}} and a [[mass market paperback]] in February 2005.{{full|date=April 2025}} In the UK the paperback was published by [[Penguin Books]],{{full|date=April 2025}} a year after its [[Viking Press]] imprint published the hardcover version.{{full|date=April 2025}} In 2004 it was published in French, Danish, Japanese, German, and Spanish.{{cn|date=April 2025}} The book was published in Russia in 2005, and its translator, Nikita Krasnikov, was named best translator for that year at the "Bastkon" literary conference in the Moscow area.<ref>{{cite web | author = Vladimirsky, Vasily | date = March 2006 | title = Изгнание бога—Доклад о вероятности оЗ от 26.02.2006 | work = Ozon.ru | url = http://www.ozon.ru/context/detail/id/2609574/ | access-date = 1 April 2025 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060319074447/http://www.ozon.ru/context/detail/id/2609574/ | archive-date = 2006-03-19 | language = ru | quote = <small>Уильям Гибсон. Распознавание образов / На литературно-практической конференции "Басткон", прошедшей недавно в Подмосковье, автор перевода этого романа Никита Красников был отмечен как лучший переводчик 2005 года. [William Gibson. Pattern Recognition / At the literary and practical conference "Bastkon", which was recently held in the Moscow region, the author of the translation of this novel, Nikita Krasnikov, was awarded as the best translator of 2005.]</small>}}</ref> [[Tantor Media]] published the 10.5-hour-long, unabridged [[audiobook]] on April 1, 2004, and re-released it on January 1, 2005.{{cn|date=April 2025}} Voiced by Shelly Frasier, it was criticized by [[John Joseph Adams|John Adams]] of ''Locus'' as being pleasant but with distracting dialects.<ref>{{Cite news | last=Adams | first=John | author-link=John Joseph Adams | date= July 2004 | title=Reviews by John Joseph Adams | periodical=[[Locus (magazine)|Locus Magazine]] |publisher=Locus Publications |issue=522 | url=http://www.locusmag.com/2004/Reviews/07_AdamsAudiobooks.html | access-date=2007-12-27}}.</ref>