Oooooooo I had forgotten about this, until now, I am reading Pattern Recognition by William Gibson. I have just read a review and agree that being set in the present scared me a bit, but so far it seems Brilliant, with the one exception that you can tell when someone writes about an area that they haven't lived in, like calling Camden, Camden Town, ummmm yeah, it is the correct name, but noone calls it that, do they, cough,cough, no.