October 8, 1997 Contact: Barbara McKenna (408) 459-2495; mckenna@ua.ucsc.edu

ACCLAIMED SCIENCE FICTION WRITER TO SPEAK AT UC SANTA CRUZ ON OCTOBER 20

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SANTA CRUZ, CA--Acclaimed science fiction writer Pat Cadigan will present a public talk and read from her new novel on Monday, October 20, at 4 P.M., in Kresge College Room 159 at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The talk is free and open to the public.

Cadigan, acclaimed by the London Guardian as "The Queen of Cyberpunk," is the author of four novels, Bunraku (released this past March), Mindplayers, Synners, and Fools; and three short story collections, Patterns, Home By The Sea, and Dirty Work. Some of her short stories have also appeared in Letters from Home, alongside work by Karen Joy Fowler and Pat Murphy.

Cadigan began writing in 1987. Several of her short stories have been nominated for Hugo and Nebula Awards and 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 honored with the Locus Award in 1990.

For more information on the talk, call (408) 459-2781. For more information on Cadigan, visit the Website http://www.wmin.ac.uk/~fowlerc/patcadigan.html.

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