Books by Pat Cadigan For sale, from the author, and her husband, Chris Fowler All prices in pounds sterling. Please send funds, payable to "C J Fowler", as sterling cheques drawn on a UK bank, or, if sending from overseas, as International Money Order or bankers draft in sterling. Send to: Chris Fowler, 106A Woodlands Park Road, London N15 3SD, United Kingdom Enquiries: send SAE (stamped, if from UK, or with International Reply Coupons if from overseas), or email to fowlerc@wmin.ac.uk More information: http://www.wmin.ac.uk/~fowlerc/patcadigan.html Fools HarperCollins, paperback, second printing, UK. 4.99. Pat's third novel, winner of the Arthur C Clarke Award, 1995. Warning: Personalities for Sale. All the world's a role. 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 strange. 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. Pursued by assassins from a mysterious Escort Service and renegade mind-pirates of every description, Marva must venture into the seamy Downs to find out who wrote the script of the most difficult role of her career. "Cadigan is a major talent" William Gibson "Cadigan has a talent for cutting right to the disturbing heart of her chosen subject, always from an unexpected angle" Time Out "Fools is one of those rare books that not only bear immediate rereading, but demand it. It is smart, urgent, funny, and perfectly controlled, cranking up its characters' paranoia notch by notch in a tight plot where no one can trust anyone else, not even themselves" Interzone Mindplayers Gollancz, hardback (first hardback edition), UK. 20.00. Pat's first novel. Mindplayers are tomorrow's psychoanlaysts, linked directly to their patients using sophisticated machinery attached to the optic nerve. In one-to-one Mindplay contact, you can be inside someone else's head, wandering the landscapes of their consciousness. Allie is a sensation-seeking young woman, obtaining illicit thrills from her shady friend Jerry Wirerammer. But Allie goes badly astray when Jerry suplies her with a "madcap" - a device that lets you temporarily and harmlessly experience psychosis. There's something wrong with Jerry's madcap, and the psychosis doesn't go away when it's disconnected. Allie ends up undergoing treatment at a "dry-cleaner", and she is faced with a stark choice - jail, for her illegal use of the madcap; or training to become a Mindplayer herself. During training Allie becomes familiar with the Pool - a cohesive, though shifting mental landscape jointly constructed by a number of minds; and more disturbingly encounters McFloy, who has been mind-wiped, so that his adult body is inhabited by a mind only two hours old. And as a fully-fledged Mindplayer Allie has to choose between the many specialist options open to her - Reality Affixing or Pathsofinding; Thrillseeking or Dreamfeeding... Mindplayers is a remarkably accomplished first novel, from an author who has already established a formidable reputation for her short stories. Written in a hard-edged modern style which will appeal to readers of William Gibson, Mindplayers "does a terrific job describing the interior landscapes of the minds we visit ... rich and imaginative"(Locus). "Excellent stuff, perceptive, imaginative, subtle and penetrating. A pleasure to read, and a writer to admire" Analog "Cadigan's novel is an energetic, intriguing, darkly humorous head-trip extravaganza" Fantasy Review Synners HarperCollins, hardback (first hardback edition), UK. 20.00. Pat's second novel, winner of the Arthur C Clarke Award, 1992. Synners are synthesisers - not machines, but people. They take images from the brains of performers and turn them into a form which can be packaged, and sold, and consumed. Pat Cadigan's third novel plunges us into a fast-moving, high-tech future, exotic, exciting and dangerous. It's a world where new technology spawns new crime even before it hits the streets. A world where computer viruses can seem all but human. A world of new drugs and even newer side-effects. A world where the human mind and the extern al landscape have fused into a new and strange reality. Our future, in other words. "Synners is a knock-out, witty, rude and rich with ideas" Ellen Datlow, Fiction Editor of Omni "Ambitious, brilliantly executed...Cadigan is a major talent" William Gibson "Beside Synners, most previous cyberpunk novels look like vignettes ... settle back for a great read" Locus "If you have't tried Cadigan yet, you're still drinking that sissy kid stuff" Michael Swanwick "All Cadigan's work is typified by a hard-bitten but evocative prose, an understanding of the bleaker side of the human psyche, and an undergirding compassion" Michael Bishop "I can't think of another writer who makes such exacting work look so easy" Lewis Shiner Dirty Work Ziesing, trade hardback (first edition). 20.00. Pat's third short story collection. This is the only edition so far. Home By the Sea WSFA, hardback, first edition, limited, numbered, signed, slipcased. A beautifully produced collection of stories, Pat's second collection. Originally priced at $49.95. Special price - 25.00. Patterns Ursus, hardback, first edition, limited, numbered, signed, slipcased. Pat's first short story collection. Originally priced at $50 in this edition. Special price - 25.00. All books are signed. Prices (reminder - in pounds sterling) include post and packing. The only one of these of which we have significant amounts is Fools. If you are purchasing for educational use, enquire about discounts for bulk purchases. Information correct at 7 October 1996.