[Guests of Honour -o- Æresgjester -o- Pat Cadigan]
Pat Cadigan, acclaimed by the London Guardian as The Queen of Cyberpunk, is the author of three novels, Mindplayers, Synners and Fools; and three short story collections, Patterns, Home By The Sea, and Dirty Work. Some of her short stories also appeared in Letters from Home, alongside work by Karen Joy Fowler and Pat Murphy. Her most recent short stories are Death in the Promised Land and Tea from an Empty Cup. Pat completed her new novel, BUNRAKU, on Friday 7 March. It is mainly set in virtual reality and about ethnic identity - what happens to you if your country doesn't exist anymore.

Pat Cadigan was born in Schenectady, New York, and grew up in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Attending the University of Massachusetts on a scholarship, she eventually transferred to the University of Kansas where she received her degree. Pat was an editor and writer for Hallmark Cards in Kansas City for ten years before embarking on her careers as a fiction writer in 1987.

Since that time her Hugo and Nebula Award-nominated short stories have appeared in such magazines as Omni, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, as well as numerous anthologies. Her first collection, Patterns, was honoured with the Locus Award in 1990.

Pat Cadigan moved to England in August 1996, and now lives in North London, with her son Bob Fenner, husband Chris Fowler, and their cat, Calgary.

Fools
Fools won the Arthur C Clarke Award in 1995 for best science fiction novel published in 1994. This was the second time that Pat Cadigan had won the Clarke Award. She won it in 1992, for her second novel, Synners, published by Harper Collins in Great Britain, and by Bantam Spectra in the USA, in 1991. Pat is the only person to have won the Clarke Award twice. In a world of brainsuckers and bodysnatchers, you can't take anything for granted. Not even your own identity. When Marva, a struggling Method actress, wakes up in a hologram pool in an exclusive priv club with fancy new clothes and plenty of money, she knows something is amiss. When a memory of murder starts tugging at her, she knows something is very strange, and that she'd better find out whose life she's living. Fast.

From the Interview with The Observer, Sunday, 30 June 1996: When Pat Cadigan's story Rock On appeared in Mirrorshades, Bruce Sterling's genre-defining 1987 cyberpunk anthology, lots of readers just assumed she was a man.

"So some people then said, well this can't be a legitimate movement - there are no women in it", she explains over coffee in a Soho cafe. "Then it finally got out that Pat was short for Patricia, but then people would say to me, well you can't be a cyberpunk, because there are no women in cyberpunk. People would actually try to pick fights with me over it. Finally, my attitude was like, kiss my ass. What is your problem?"

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Pat Cadigan er blitt kalt Cyberpunkens dronning. Hun har skrevet tre romaner, Mindplayers, Synners og Fools; og novellesamlinger, Patterns, Home By The Sea, og Dirty Work. Noen noveller ble også publisert i Letters from Home, ved siden av noveller skrevet av Karen Joy Fowler og Pat Murphy. Den syvende mars 1997 ble Pat ferdig med sin nye roman, BUNRAKU. Den utspiller seg mest i den virtuelle virkeligheten og handler om ethnisk identitet - hva skjer med deg hvis landet ditt opphører å eksistere?

Pat Cadigan ble født i Schenectady, New York, og er oppvokst i Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Hun studerte ved University of Massachusetts og University of Kansas hvor hun fikk sin grad. Pat jobbet som redaktør og skribent for Hallmark Cards in Kansas City i ti år før hun satset for fullt på et liv som forfatter i 1987.

Siden denne gangen har hennes noveller blitt nominert til Hugo og Nebula Awards og blitt publisert i Omni, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, og Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, og flere anthologier. Hennes første novellesamling, Patterns, fikk Locus Award i 1990.

Hun flyttet til England i august 1996 og bor nå i London, sammen med mannen Chris Fowler, sønnen Bob Fenner og deres katt, Calgary.

Fools
Fools vant Arthur C Clarke prisen i 1995 som beste science fiction roman publisert i 1994. Dette var andre gangen Pat Cadigan vant Clarke prisen. Første gang var i 1992, for hennes andre roman, Synners, publisert i 1991. Pat er den eneste forfatter som har vunnet prisen to ganger.

Her selges personligheter. Hele verden er en rolle.

Når Marva, en "metode"-skuespillerinne våkner i en hologram pool i en eksklusiv klubb iført nye klær og med masse penger, vet hun at noe er galt. Når hun begynner å huske et mord, vet hun at noe er veldig galt og at hun må finne ut hvem sitt liv hun lever.

Fra et intervju med The Observer, 30 juni 1996:

Da Pat Cadigans novelle Rock On ble publisert i Mirrorshades, Bruce Sterlings cyberpunk anthologi fra 1987, trodde mange lesere at hun var en mann.

"Mange sa denne gangen at dette kan ikke være noe ekte bevegelse - det finnes ikke noen kvinner i det. Etterhvert ble det kjent at Pat var forkortelse for Patricia, men så sa folk at jeg ikke kunne være en cyberpunk, fordi det ikke finnes noen kvinner i cyberpunk. De slåss nærmest med meg om dette. Til slutt ga jeg blaffen. Herregud, hva er galt med dem?"

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