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Pat Cadigan

(Patricia Oren Kearney Cadigan)

(b.1953)

Born in Kansas, Pat Cadigan has for many years been a visitor lecturing on creative writing and the genre at British universities. She has been twice the winner of the Arthur C Clarke Award. She is married with one son.

Awards: Hugo (2013), Clarke (1995) see all

Genres: Science Fiction, Horror, Young Adult Fantasy

New and upcoming books

February 2025

Ultraseven
(Ultraman)

Series

Artificial Reality Division
1. Tea from an Empty Cup (1998)
2. Dervish is Digital (2000)

Alita
Alita: Battle Angel (2018)
Alita: Battle Angel: Iron City (2018)

Ultraman
Ultraseven (2025)

Novels

   Mindplayers (1987)
   Synners (1991)
   Home by the Sea (1992)
   Fools (1992)
   Reality Used to Be a Friend of Mine (2003)
   Cellular (2004)
   Gemini Man (2019)
   Ultraman (2023)

Collections

   Patterns (1989)
   Letters from Home (1991) (with Karen Joy Fowler and Pat Murphy)
   Dirty Work (1993)
   Dangerous Games (2014) (with Silvia Moreno-Garcia)

Novellas and Short Stories

Chalk (2013)

Anthologies edited

The Ultimate Cyberpunk (2002) (with Martin H Greenberg)

Series contributed to

Lost in Space
   1. Promised Land (1999)
   2. The Vault (1999) (with Gene DeWeese)
   Lost in Space: Blueprint (1976)

Mammoth Books presents
Death in the Promised Land (1995)

Web
11. Avatar (1999)

Twilight Zone
2. Upgrade / Sensuous Cindy (2004)

Jason X
1. Jason X (2005)
2. The Experiment (2005)

Tor.Com Original
The Christmas Show (2013)
AI and the Trolley Problem (2018)

DC Comics novels
Mad Love (2018) (with Paul Dini)

Non fiction show

Omnibus editions show

Books containing stories by Pat Cadigan

The Big Book of Cyberpunk Vol. 1 (2023)
(Big Book of Cyberpunk, book 1)
edited by
Jared Shurin

Sense of Wonder (2023)
A Century of Science Fiction
edited by
Leigh Ronald Grossman

Body Shocks (2021)
Extreme Tales of Body Horror
edited by
Ellen Datlow

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Awards

	2013 Locus Award for Best Novelette : The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi
	2013 Hugo Award for Best Novelette : The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi
	1995 Arthur C. Clarke Award : Fools
	1992 Arthur C. Clarke Award : Synners
	1990 Locus Award for Best Collection : Patterns

Award nominations

	2014 Locus Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : The Christmas Show
	2014 Locus Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : Chalk
	2014 British Fantasy Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Chalk
	2002 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Dervish is Digital
	1998 BSFA Award for Best Short Fiction (nominee) : The Emperor's New Reality
	1996 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Death in the Promised Land
	1995 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (nominee) : Paris In June
	1994 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Dirty Work
	1993 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Home by the Sea
	1993 Hugo Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : True Faces
	1992 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Synners
	1992 Hugo Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : Dispatches from the Revolution
	1991 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : The Power and the Passion
	1991 Nebula Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Fool to Believe
	1991 Nebula Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Synners
	1991 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Fool to Believe
	1991 Hugo Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Fool to Believe
	1989 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection (nominee) : Patterns
	1988 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Angel
	1988 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Angel
	1988 Locus Award for Best First Novel (nominee) : Mindplayers
	1988 Hugo Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Angel
	1987 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (nominee) : Pretty Boy Crossover
	1987 Philip K Dick Award (nominee) : Mindplayers
	1987 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Pretty Boy Crossover

Pat Cadigan recommends

The Escher Man (2024)
T R Napper
"Brace yourself, this is the future, but not as you remember it... it's more badass."

Wolf's Hill (2018)
(Black Road, book 3)
Simon Bestwick
"Grabs you and won't let go."

Savant (2016)
Nik Abnett
"Nik Abnett brings a most welcome new voice and vision to S.F. Savant is a knockout!."

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