Gateway Essentials: Pat Cadigan
Today, we direct your attention to one of the great forces for good in modern SF, the one and only Pat Cadigan.
Twice winner of the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award: in 1992 for Synners and then again in 1995 for Fools, Pat has also been shortlisted multiple times for the Hugo, Nebula, Philip K. Dick, BSFA, World Fantasy and Theodore Sturgeon Awards, among many others. In 2013, she won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette for ‘The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi’.
Many are the good and great of the field who have lined up to praise her. Can Neil Gaiman, William Gibson and Bruce Sterling all be wrong? We think not. Nor could fellow Arthur C. Clarke Award-winner Paul McAuley, who wrote an astute review of Fools in the early days of this very blog.
OK, we’re sure by now that you’re champing at the bit to sample some of Pat’s extraordinary work – but where to begin? We’re glad you asked!
As ever, the SF Masterworks series is the best place to start, where you’ll find the Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning Synners in paperback and eBook:
What happens when (not ‘if’!) you’ve raced through Synners and are still hungry for more? Again: glad you asked – honestly, it’s like you’re following a script designed to help us point out cool books.
As ever, once you’ve finished with an author’s Masterworks, your next port of call should be the Gateway Essentials; in this instance:
You can find more of Pat Cadigan’s work via her Author page on the Gateway website and read about her in her entry in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.
