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Pat Cadigan

Pat Cadigan

Author Biography & Works

Patricia Oren Kearney Cadigan is a British-American science fiction author, whose work is most often identified with the cyberpunk movement. Her novels and short stories often explore the relationship between the human mind and technology. Her debut novel, Mindplayers, was nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award in 1988.

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Books by Pat Cadigan

Synners

Synners

Synners are jacked-in outlaws, hooked on the astonishing worlds of virtual space as an escape from the grim, depressing industrial reality around them. But, hot-wired in to cyberspace, they have...

Tea From An Empty Cup

Tea From An Empty Cup

(Artificial Reality Division) Start here

You'd think that Artificial Reality couldn't kill you, since legally speaking, everything is a lie in AR anyway. But that seems to be just exactly what happened - in a...

Dervish Is Digital

Dervish Is Digital

(Artificial Reality Division)

Dervish Is Digital is Pat Cadigan's novel of a woman who works in computer-generated reality and the strange case she is given.

Mindplayers

Mindplayers

Allie Haas likes to get high. Her dealer likes to get her high. One day he convinces her to try a new, stolen madcap' - very illegal. The experience nearly...

Fools

Fools

Cyberpunk, despite its interest in body modifications and computer interfaces, was never really concerned with the posthuman. But occasionally a cyberpunk work would start probing towards the posthuman, raising issues...

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