{"title":"Pat Cadigan","description":"Pat Cadigan (1953 -)Pat Cadigan was born in Schenectady, NY, and grew up in Fitchburg, MA.  Attending the University of Massachusetts on a scholarship, she eventually transferred to the University of Kansas where she received her degree. Since embarking on her career as a fiction writer in 1987, her Hugo and Nebula Award-nominated short stories have appeared in such magazines as Omni, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine as well as numerous anthologies.  Her first collection, Patterns, was honoured the Locus Award in 1990, and she won the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1992 and 1995 for her novels Synners and Fools. Pat Cadigan moved to the UK in 1996 and now lives in London.","products":[{"product_id":"synners","title":"Synners","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Ambitious, brilliantly executed ... Cadigan is a major talent\"\u003c\/b\u003e - William Gibson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Cadigan's multifaceted talent includes a strong gift for definitive hardcore cyberpunk\" \u003c\/b\u003e- Bruce Sterling\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"...back in the early 90's [I was] enthralled by Cadigan's vision ... \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eI found it's still a marvellous read and [I am] amazed at how prescient it was\"\u003c\/b\u003e - Amazon Reviewer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSynners are hardcore - an outlaw band of hackers, simulation pirates, and experience synthesisers hooked on artificial reality and virtual space. To be a Synner is to distort the line between technology and the human mind - fusing to the point where any encounter with \"real-life\" is incidental - all it costs is your freedom, and your humanity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSynners shows us a world perilously close to our own. This classic novel by the Queen of Cyberpunk offers us a terrifying glimpse into the future of our race, and questions what it means to be human.","brand":"Gollancz","offers":[{"title":"Paperback ( Published 2012-08-09 )","offer_id":47642958790942,"sku":"9780575119543","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback ( Published 2023-08-24, Edition 931953.0 )","offer_id":47642958823710,"sku":"9781399617253","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0571\/2642\/0664\/files\/9780575119543-original.jpg?v=1781929010"},{"product_id":"fools","title":"Fools","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Ambitious, brilliantly executed . . . Cadigan is a major talent\"\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003ci\u003eWilliam Gibson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"...an incredibly fun book\"\u003c\/b\u003e - Goodreads Reviewer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eYour head is in a blender and that is exactly the point\"\u003c\/b\u003e - Amazon Reviewer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWARNING: Personalities for Sale \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a world of brainsuckers and bodysnatchers, you can't take anything for granted - not even your own identity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA struggling Method actress, Marva, finds herself pursued by deadly assassins, a mysterious escort service and renegade mind-pirates of every description. It may or may not have something to do with a murder, tugging at the edges of her memory. Is this a wild case of identity confusion? And can Marva find out who wrote the script for the most difficult role of her career?","brand":"Gollancz","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47642959216926,"sku":"9781473226029","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0571\/2642\/0664\/files\/9781473226029-original.jpg?v=1783047933"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0571\/2642\/0664\/collections\/getimage_493b5142-b3d5-4e2e-a655-0bd8203e6671.jpg?v=1783232197","url":"https:\/\/store.gollancz.co.uk\/collections\/author-pat-cadigan-1.oembed","provider":"Gollancz","version":"1.0","type":"link"}