October 12, 1998

Top science fiction author to deliver talk at UCSC

By Barbara McKenna

Noted author Pat Cadigan is concluding a national tour in Santa Cruz with a reading/booksigning at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, October 20, in Kresge College, Room 159. The event is free and open to the public.

Pat Cadigan, acclaimed by the London Guardian as "The Queen of Cyberpunk," is the author of four novels, Mindplayers, Synners, Fools, and her latest, Tea from an Empty Cup (see reviews). She received the Clarke Award for both Synners and Fools--the only person to win the award twice.

She is the author of three short-story collections, Patterns, Home by the Sea, and Dirty Work. 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, received the Locus Award in 1990.

Along with her fiction work, Cadigan recently authored her first major nonfiction book, The Making of Lost in Space: The Movie. The book was released in April 1998 to coincide with the release of the film. Cadigan is currently working on a similar project for the upcoming film, Mummies.

The Santa Cruz event is sponsored by Another Scene, a center for the study of digital culture directed by Earl Jackson Jr., associate professor of literature at UCSC. For more information, call (415) 648-7188.

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