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Pat Cadigan

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born

September 10, 1953 in Schenectady, New York, The United States

gender

female

website

http://fastfwd.livejournal.com

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Science Fiction & Fantasy, Literature & Fiction

influences

Robert A. Heinlein

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December 2010

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Pat Cadigan is an American-born science fiction author, who broke through as a major writer as part of the cyberpunk movement. Her early novels and stories all shared a common theme, exploring the relationship between the human mind and technology.

Her first novel, Mindplayers, introduced what became a common theme to all her works. Her stories blurred the line between reality and perception by making the human mind a real and explorable place. Her second novel, Synners, expanded upon the same theme, and featured a future where direct access to the mind via technology was in fact possible.

She has won a number of awards, including the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award twice,in 1992, and 1995 for her novels Synners and Fools.

She currently liv...more

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Montage of Calendar Pages Flying Away, Fade In Two Months Later:

Well, we're still here. Old Unkillable had her 92nd birthday two days ago. We bought her a small air-conditioning unit and her flat is no longer an oven. This has probably extended her life at least another ten years past our original projection, which means she'll check out when I'm 92.

We still miss Miss Kitty Calgary, Queen of the Cats. Every now and then, I see her in one of her favourite pl... read more »

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Average rating: 3.66 · 4,045 ratings · 424 reviews · 84 distinct works

	Synners by Pat Cadigan (Goodreads Author), Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 3.77 avg rating — 336 ratings — published 1991 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Tea From An Empty Cup (Artificial Reality Division #1) 3.09 avg rating — 209 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Mindplayers 3.77 avg rating — 152 ratings — published 1987 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Fools 3.62 avg rating — 104 ratings — published 1992 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Patterns by Pat Cadigan (Goodreads Author), Bruce Sterling (Introduction) 3.78 avg rating — 60 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Dervish Is Digital (Artificial Reality Division #2) 3.21 avg rating — 73 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Ultimate Cyberpunk 3.60 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Dirty Work 3.56 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Jason X 3.18 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Lightspeed Magazine, December 2011 by Pat Cadigan (Goodreads Author), Arthur C. Clarke, Vylar Kaftan 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2011	My rating:

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Artificial Reality Division (2 books)
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The Dead Women Of Juárez

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Who Am I and If So How Many?: A Journey Through Your Mind

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Stories from the Quiet War

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Pat Cadigan is currently reading: The Dead Women Of Juárez by Sam Hawken	My rating:
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Pat Cadigan gave to: Fifteen Days Without a Head by Dave Cousins (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
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Pat Cadigan is currently reading: Who Am I and If So How Many?: A Journey Through Your Mind by Richard David Precht	My rating:
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Pat Cadigan gave to: Stories from the Quiet War by Paul McAuley	My rating:
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Pat Cadigan gave to: Nigger by Dick Gregory	My rating:
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Pat Cadigan gave to: Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall - from America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness by Frank Brady	My rating:
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Pat Cadigan gave to: A Dance With Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5) by George R.R. Martin read in April, 2012	My rating:
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Pat Cadigan gave to: Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are by Sebastian Seung read in April, 2012	My rating:
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Pat Cadigan gave to: No One is Here Except All of Us by Ramona Ausubel (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
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