Editing Pattern Recognition (novel) (section)

== Characters ==
* '''[[Cayce Pollard]]''' – A 32-year-old woman who lives in New York City. She pronounces her given name "Case" although her parents named her after [[Edgar Cayce]]. She uses her interest in marketing trends and fads, and her psychological sensitivity to logos and advertising, in her work as an advertising consultant. Her sensitivity becomes a phobia towards older corporate mascots, especially the [[Michelin Man]]. She wears only black, gray or white, usually [[Fruit of the Loom]] shrunken cotton T-shirts (all tags removed) with Levis jeans (with the trademarks filed off the buttons) or skirts, tights, boots, as well as a black [[Buzz Rickson]] [[MA-1 bomber jacket]]. (Buzz Rickson did not produce the MA-1 in black, but due to demand created by the novel, began offering a "William Gibson collection" black MA-1.<ref>Gibson, [https://williamgibsonblog.blogspot.com/2005/12/ "Buzz in Black"]</ref>)
* '''[[Hubertus Bigend]]''' – The 35-year-old founder of advertising agency ''Blue Ant''. He was born in Belgium but educated at a British [[boarding school]] and at [[Harvard University]].
* '''Dorotea Benedetti''' – The representative of the [[graphic design]] company. She has a background in [[industrial espionage]] and is secretly hired to encourage Cayce to leave London without accepting Bigend's offer to track the film clips.
* '''Bernard Stonestreet''' – A representative of the advertising agency ''Blue Ant''.
* '''"Parkaboy"/Peter Gilbert''' – Cayce's friend from the online discussion forum. He lives in [[Chicago]] and describes himself as a "middle-aged white guy since 1967".
* '''Boone Chu''' – A Chinese-American living in [[Washington (state)|Washington state]], but raised in [[Oklahoma]]. He had a failed start-up company specializing in security. He is hired to assist Cayce in the search for the maker of the footage.
* '''Voytek Biroshak''' – A blond man born in [[Poland]] and raised in [[Russia]]. He acquires and sells antique calculators to raise funds for an exhibition on [[Sinclair ZX81]] computers.
* '''Damien Pease''' – A 30-year-old friend of Cayce whose flat she stays at while in London. He is a video director shooting a documentary on [[World War II|WWII battleground]] excavation near [[Stalingrad]].
* '''Hobbs Baranov''' – A former [[National Security Agency|NSA]] [[Cryptography|cryptographer]] and [[mathematician]]. He collects antique calculators and sells [[Intelligence (information gathering)|intelligence]] as he squats near [[Poole]] with a [[Romani people|Gypsy]] group.
* '''{{vanchor|Ivy}}''' – Creator of website, discussion group, and chatroom Fetish:Footage:Forum that Cayce frequents. The website's intention is to discuss the anonymous film postings.