Pat Cadigan
Author of Synners
About the Author
Image credit: Catriona Sparks, November 10, 2007
Series
Works by Pat Cadigan
Os vigilantes do imaginário - 2 4 copies
Os vigilantes do imaginário - 1 4 copies
Freeing The Angels 3 copies
Life On Earth 3 copies
Cody {short story} 3 copies
Jimmy 2 copies
Lunatic Bridge 2 copies
The big next [short fiction] 2 copies
Truth and Bone [short story] 2 copies
Stilled Life 2 copies
Johnny Come Home 2 copies
Icy You Juicy Me 2 copies
By Lost Ways 1 copy
Vengeance Is Yours 1 copy
Between Heaven And Hull 1 copy
Addicted to Love 1 copy
Glass Houses (Avatar Dance) 1 copy
Caretakers 1 copy
Linda 1 copy
In Plain Sight 1 copy
Picking Up The Pieces 1 copy
No Prisoners {novelette} 1 copy
Don't Mention Madagascar 1 copy
The Mudlark 1 copy
This Is Your Life 1 copy
Alien3 1 copy
Associated Works
Alien Sex: 19 Tales by the Masters of Science Fiction and Dark Fantasy (1990) — Contributor — 486 copies
The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction, 1960-1990 (1993) — Contributor — 316 copies
Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk and Postmodern Science Fiction (1991) — Contributor — 249 copies
Women of Wonder, the Contemporary Years: Science Fiction by Women from the 1970s to the 1990s (1995) — Contributor — 202 copies
The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year's Best Science Fiction (2019) — Contributor — 132 copies
The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Sixteen Original Works by Speculative Fiction's Finest Voices (2008) — Contributor — 132 copies
Cyberpunk: Stories of Hardware, Software, Wetware, Evolution, and Revolution (1995) — Contributor — 75 copies
The Year's Best Science Fiction Vol. 2: The Saga Anthology of Science Fiction 2021 (2021) — Contributor — 43 copies
Light Years and Dark: Science Fiction and Fantasy of and for Our Time (1984) — Contributor — 36 copies
Nightmare Magazine, October 2014 (Women Destroy Horror! special issue) (2014) — Contributor, some editions — 35 copies
Celebration: Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the British Science Fiction Association (2008) — Introduction — 34 copies
Kong Unbound: The Cultural Impact, Pop Mythos, and Scientific Plausibility of a Cinematic Legend (2005) — Contributor — 22 copies
The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Second Annual Edition (1993) — Contributor — 12 copies
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 12, No. 1 [January 1988] (1988) — Contributor — 12 copies
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 16, No. 4 & 5 [April 1992] (1992) — Contributor — 12 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction December 1982, Vol. 63, No. 6 (1982) — Contributor — 9 copies
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- Legal name
- Cadigan, Patricia Oren Kearney
- Birthdate
- 1953-09-10
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
UK (citizen from 2014) - Birthplace
- Schenectady, New York, USA
- Places of residence
- Schenectady, New York, USA (birthplace)
Overland Park, Kansas, USA
London, England, UK - Education
- University of Massachusetts
University of Kansas - Occupations
- science fiction author
- Relationships
- Fenner, Arnie (ex-husband)
- Short biography
- Pat Cadigan is an author of all kinds of science fiction, including cyberpunk back when it was cool. She lives in London with her spouse Christopher Fowler (no, not the author, the other one).
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- Works
- 91
- Also by
- 180
- Members
- 3,212
- Popularity
- #7,966
- Rating
- 3.6
- Reviews
- 58
- ISBNs
- 102
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I finally (FINALLY) finished this slim little paperback last night. I struggled with it due to an inability to give a shit about any of the characters or about the details of Post-Apocalyptic Noo Yawk Sitty. Especially with the scenes in PANYS. I think the reader is supposed to find the vision of virtual reality compelling or interesting? It definitely wasn't either of those things.
The characters just have no motivations that make sense. Yuki risks her life and liberty to find Tom... because she sort of has a crush on him that she knows is one-sided? OK, if you insist. The hint-hint-nudge-nudge-possibly-not-straight police detective Konstantin in the space of a few hours goes from never having set foot in VR to plunging into it headfirst not once but twice despite having no idea what she's going to do when she gets there, or if it'll advance her investigation, or be allowed evidence in court? And then she proceeds to blunder around and answer approximately zero of her questions both times? What the fuck. Tom
The two viewpoints characters are female, as are the main villain(s? I have zero idea what we're supposed to think of Body Sativa's actions), and a majority of the other characters with speaking parts. That's pretty cool. There's also some gender bending, which is mostly irrelevant, although I think the book was trying to make some kind of point about gender and embodiment in AR. (It failed.) Konstantin and Tom are interpretable as queer if you squint really hard, but Konstantin's ex is never given a pronoun and I'm not sure if we're supposed to make something of the fact that the Tom's avatar is an androgyne and that he's not into Yuki.
If I gave a shit, I could probably read the entire book again and the ending might make more sense. Unfortunately, I really, really don't.
Not that it's badly written. I didn't hate it. I'm just incredibly unimpressed. This book set out to explore some really complicated ideas and it failed to do justice to any of them.… (more)