Visions of the Future w/ Pat Cadigan

11/07/22 • 29 min

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Cyberpunk author Pat Cadigan shares her thoughts on the role of science fiction in society, her methods for thinking about the future, and which elements of the cyberpunk genre have become features of our everyday reality.

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.

Recorded live from the Science Museum, London on 26 October 2022.

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Recorded live from the Science Museum, London on 26 October 2022.

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Credits

Produced by FUTURES Podcast

Recorded, Mixed & Edited by Luke Robert Mason

Twitter: twitter.com/futurespodcast

Facebook: facebook.com/futurespodcast

Instagram: instagram.com/futurespodcast

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Produced by FUTURES Podcast

Recorded, Mixed & Edited by Luke Robert Mason