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PAT CADIGAN
Cyberpunk author
Pat Cadigan
was named
"The Queen of Cyberpunk" by the Guardian.
Robert Heinlein in part dedicated his 1982 novel
Friday to
Pat.
Pat
was born in Schenectady, New York,
United States. She grew up in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. She attended the
University of Massachusetts (Amherst, Massachusetts) on a scholarship,
majoring in theater, and graduated from the University of Kansas in
1975.
She became a full-time writer in 1987. She has won a World Fantasy Award
and the 1988 Locus Award (for her short story "Angel", included in
Patterns), and she has several times been a finalist for the
Hugo
Award
as well as the Nebula. Her first novel,
Mindplayers, was nominated for
the Philip K.Dick Memorial Award.
Patterns, her short fiction
collection, won the 1990 Locus Award for best short-story collection,
and was nominated for the Bram Stoker and the Thorpe Menn Awards.
Her short fiction has appeared in various publications,
including Omni and Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine and in many
anthologies. Her work has been translated into French, German, Polish,
Japanese, and Czech.
Pat's work has shown wide variety, ranging through dark fantasy and
horror to quirky and original science fiction. Her style is often marked
by a tough-minded vigor and icy undercurrents of black humor — an
Eighties sensibility that can only be called punk. Her "Pathosfinder
series" (including such stories as
Nearly Departed) was remarkable for
its eerily visionary air. Her multifaceted talent includes a
strong gift for definitive hard-core cyberpunk.
Pat authored
Tea From An Empty Cup,
Synners,
Fools, and
Dervish Is Digital.
Read
Step Outside:
An Interview with Pat Cadigan,
Pat Cadigan On The Future, and
The
Return of the Queen of Cyberpunk.
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