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Pat Cadigan

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in Schenectady, New York, The United States

September 10

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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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Green Bananas Until Further Notice

So I’ve been a little busy for the last little while—for the last few years—and my cancer check-ups went from quarterly to every six months to annual. The latest one was—well, a surprise.

My oncologist broke up with me.

We were never exclusive, of course. But it’s not simply that she wants to see other patients—she feels that we’ve come to a point in our relationship where neither of us is benefitt

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	Synners by Pat Cadigan (Goodreads Author), Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 3.67 avg rating — 2,232 ratings — published 1991 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Alien 3: The Unproduced Screenplay by William Gibson by Pat Cadigan (Goodreads Author), William Gibson 3.51 avg rating — 1,631 ratings — published 2021 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Alita: Battle Angel 3.78 avg rating — 814 ratings — published 2018 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tea from an Empty Cup (Artificial Reality Division, #1) 3.35 avg rating — 899 ratings — published 1998 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mindplayers 3.76 avg rating — 721 ratings — published 1987 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fools 3.64 avg rating — 549 ratings — published 1992 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Alita: Battle Angel - Iron City 3.51 avg rating — 501 ratings — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Patterns 3.68 avg rating — 275 ratings — published 1987 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dervish is Digital (Artificial Reality Division, #2) 3.51 avg rating — 193 ratings — published 2001 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	AI and the Trolley Problem 3.34 avg rating — 170 ratings — published 2018	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Peripheral (Jackpot #1)

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

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Pat Cadigan wrote a new blog post Green Bananas Until Further Notice So I’ve been a little busy for the last little while—for the last few years—and my cancer check-ups went from quarterly to every six months to annual. Read more of this blog post »
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“Retiring young isn't for everybody, even if you think it is. When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”
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“If you can’t fuck it and it doesn’t dance, eat it or throw it away.”
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“Don’t talk to yourself in such a way that if you did so to a friend, it would end your friendship. If you had a friend dealing with the same things, you wouldn’t berate that person, say, ‘You’re not working hard enough,’ ‘You suck,’ or ‘You’re not as good as [whomever].’ You’d offer your friend encouragement, you’d try to point out all the things your friend did right, and how much progress your friend had made.
You should do no less for yourself.

Be very careful how you talk to yourself. Because you are listening.”
― Pat Cadigan

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Second of the two polls selecting our May Monthly Reads, theme being The Book I've Been Looking Forward to:

Winner of the other Monthly Reads Poll is Nova Express

The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin

16 votes, 39.0%

Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

7 votes, 17.1%

The Forever War by Joe Haldeman

7 votes, 17.1%

Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory

4 votes, 9.8%

The Wanderer by Fritz Leiber

4 votes, 9.8%

Synners by Pat Cadigan

3 votes, 7.3%

41 total votes

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“Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.”
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