She met and married Rufus Cadigan during her college years shortly after she graduated from the University of Kansas in 1975, they divorced. She pursued theater arts for a time at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst on a scholarship, but went on to study science fiction and science fiction writing with Professor James Gunn at the University of Kansas. Her writing is often marked by icy undercurrents of black humor as well as tough-minded vigor, the ingredients of the “punk” part of “cyberpunk.” Her works frequently deal with how the human mind relates to technology she ascribes this to having had the experience of being hooked up to medical machines during recovery from surgery for a congenital heart defect at age five.īorn Patricia Oren Kearney in upstate New York in 1953, she grew up in the small town of Fitchburg, Massachusetts. She has also written film novelizations, including one for Cellular (2004), which starred Kim Basinger. Clarke Award, for Synners (1992) and Fools (1995), as well as a 2013 Hugo Award for Best Science Fiction Novelette, a World Fantasy Award, and three Locus Awards. Her fiction is mostly classified in the cyberpunk subgenre, of which she is considered one of the founders. Pat Cadigan is an award-winning science fiction author and editor though American-born, she lives in the United Kingdom.
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