Meet science fiction author Pat Cadigan - dubbed the ‘Queen of Cyberpunk’ by the Guardian - for a discussion with Luke Robert Mason on the weird relationship between the human mind and technology.
In partnership with Science Museum Lates - adults-only, after-hours theme nights that take place in the museum on the last Wednesday of every month.
Speakers
Pat Cadigan
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.
Featured Book
Synners are synthesizers - not machines, but people. They take images from the brains of performers, and turn them into a form which can be packaged, sold and consumed. This book is set in a world where new technology spawns new crime before it hits the streets.
In SYNNERS the line between technology and humanity is hopelessly slim; the human mind and the external landscape have fused to the point where any encounter with reality is incidental.
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About Science Musem Lates
Science Museum Lates are adults-only, after-hours theme nights that take place in the museum on the last Wednesday of every month.