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This short story originally appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, May 1985 and was reprinted in Lightspeed, December 2011. It can also be found in the anthology The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction, 1960-1990 (1993), edtide by Ursula K. Le Guin and Brian Attebery.

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A provocative story about the relationship between the humans on a British airbase and the AI security system that guards that base. When a group of humans are killed, the question is who is responsible and why.

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Locus Award winning and WFA, Hugo and Nebula Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, May 1987. The story can be found in the anthologies:

• The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection (1988), edited by Gardner Dozios
• The 1988 Annual World's Best SF, edited by Arthur W. Saha and Donald A. Wollheim
• Nebula Awards 23 (1989), edited by Michael Bishop
• Aliens Among Us (2000), edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois
• Angels! (1995), edited by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann
• Alien Contact (2012), edited by Marty Halpern
• The Mammoth Book of Angels and Demons (2013), edited by Paula Guran
• Women of Futures Past (2016), edited by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.

It is included in the collection Patterns (1989).

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This short story originally appeared in TRSF: The Best New Science Fiction (2011), edited by Stephen Cass, and was reprinted in Clarkesworld Magazine, #98 November 2014. It can also be found in the anthology The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection (2012), edited by Gardner Dozois.

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This novella originally appeared on Omni Online, March 1995, and was reprinted in Asimov's Science Fiction, November 1995. It can also be found in the anthologies The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection (1996), edited by Gardner Dozois and The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction (2006), edited by Mike Ashley. Material from this novella was incorportated in the novel Dervish Is Digital (2001).

Dirty Work? In a manner of speaking, perhaps, but certainly not along the lines of de Sade or Henry Miller.

"Dirty" maybe because within this remarkable volume of short stories (a follow-up to her award-winning collection Patterns) author Pat Cadigan unflinchingly explores the implications of technology on modern and near-future societies, humorously challenges our perceptions of reality, and chillingly strips away our civilized facades to confront the bestial nature of our souls.

With stories like "Home By the Sea," "Dispatches from the Revolution," "No Prisoners," "50 Ways to Improve Your Orgasm," and "Naming Names," Pat Cadigan exhibits an enviable ability to tackle a variety of themes, moods, and perspectives. And makes it all seem easy.

Featuring 18 stunning fictions (including the previously unpublished "Lost Girls" written especially for this book)-as well as intriguing author introduction to each story-Dirty Work is a thought provoking, often funny, never compromising collection by one of America's most gifted authors.

It doesn't get any better than this.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Storm Constantine
• Dirty Work - (1989) - novelette
• Second Comings - Reasonable Rates - (1981) - shortstory
• The Sorceress in Spite of Herself - (1982) - shortstory
• 50 Ways to Improve Your Orgasm - (1992) - shortstory
• Mother's Milt - (1992) - shortstory
• True Faces - (1992) - novelette
• New Life for Old - (1992) - shortstory
• The Coming of the Doll - (1981) - shortstory
• The Pond - (1983) - shortstory
• The Boys in the Rain - (1987) - shortstory
• In the Dark - (1991) - shortstory
• Johnny Come Home - (1991) - shortstory
• Naming Names - (1992) - novelette
• A Deal With God - (1992) - novelette
• Dispatches from the Revolution - (1991) - novelette
• No Prisoners - (1992) - novelette
• Home by the Sea - (1991) - novelette
• Lost Girls - (1993) - shortstory

Hugo Award nominated novelette. It originally appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, July 1991 and was later reprinted in Apex Magazine, January 2014. The story can also be found in the anthologies Alternate Presidents (1992), edited by Mike Resnick, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection (1992), edited by Gardner Dozois and The Mammoth Book of Alternate Histories (2010) edited by Ian Watson and Ian Whates. It is included in the collection Dirty Work (1993).

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Hugo and Nebula Award nominated novella. It was originally published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, February 1990. There are no other known publications available at this time.

With brain-suckers and body-snatchers around, not even your own identity is safe. When Marva, a Method actress, wakes up in a hologram pool in a club with new clothes, lots of money and a memory of murder, she knows something is wrong.

Home by the Sea, by Pat Cadigan and illustrated by David R. Works was published in 1992 for the Washington Science Fiction Association's annual convention, Disclave, where Pat Cadigan and Tom Kidd were the Guests of Honor. Only 500 copies were printed, and each volume is individually numbered, signed by the author, artist, and the author of the introduction, Mike Resnick.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1992) - essay by Mike Resnick
• Dirty Work - (1989) - novelette
• 50 Ways to Improve Your Orgasm - (1992) - shortstory
• Dispatches from the Revolution - (1991) - novelette
• Home by the Sea - (1991) - novelette
• A Cadigan Bibliography - (1992) - essay by uncredited
• Biographies (- (1992) - essay by uncredited

This short story originally appeared in the anthology The Future Is Japanese (2012), edited by Nick Mamatas and Masumi Washington. It can also be found in the anthology Year's Best SF 18 (2013), edited by David G. Hartwell.

This short story originally appeared on Sci Fiction, August 17, 2005. It can also be found in the anthologies Science Fiction: The Very Best of 2005, edited by Jonathan Strahan, and Fantasy: The Best of the Year, 2006 Edition, edited by Rich Horton.

This short story originally appeared in the anthology Tropical Chills (1988) edited by Tim Sullivan. It can also be found in the anthologies The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection (1989), edited by Gardner Dozois, The Year's Best Fantasy: Second Annual Collection (1989), edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, The Mammoth Book of New Terror (2004) edited by Stephen Jones, and Handsome Devil: Stories of Sin and Seduction (2014), edited by Steve Berman. The story is included in the collection Patterns (1989).

This short story originally appreared in the anthology Omni Best Science Fiction Three (1993), edited by Ellen Datlow. It can also be found in the anthology The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection (1994), edited by Gardner Dozois.

For Allie, putting on the madcap that Jerry borrowed was a very big mistake. The psychosis itself was quite conventional, but it didn't go away when she took the madcap off, so the Brain Police took over leaving her with a choice - go to jail as a mind criminal or become a mindplayer.

This novelette originally appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, January 1988. It can also be found in the Isaac Asimov's Vampires (1996), edited by Gardner Dozois and Sheila Williams, and The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women (2001), edited by Stephen Jones. The story is included in the collection Patterns (1989). A chapbook edition appeared in 1992.

This novelette originally appeared in the anthology Narrow Houses (1992), edited by Peter Crowther. It can also be found in the anthology The Year's Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection (1993), edited by Gardner Dozois. The story is included in the collection Dirty Work (1993).

This novella originally appeared in the anthology Alien Crimes (2007), edited by Mike Resnick. It can also be found in the anthologies The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection (2008), edited by Gardner Dozois, and Other Worlds Than These (2012), edited by John Joseph Adams.

Sturgeon Award nominaed short story. It originally appeared in Omni, September 1994. The story can also be found in the anthology The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelth Annual Collection (1995), edited by Gardner Dozois.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Bruce Sterling
• Patterns - (1987) - shortstory by Pat Cadigan
• Eenie, Meenie, Ipsateenie - (1983) - shortstory by Pat Cadigan
• Vengeance is Yours - (1983) - shortstory by Pat Cadigan
• The Day the Martels Got the Cable - (1982) - shortstory by Pat Cadigan
• Roadside Rescue - (1985) - shortstory by Pat Cadigan
• Rock On - (1984) - shortstory by Pat Cadigan
• Heal - (1988) - shortstory by Pat Cadigan
• Another One Hits the Road - (1984) - novelette by Pat Cadigan
• My Brother's Keeper - (1988) - novelette by Pat Cadigan
• Pretty Boy Crossover - (1986) - shortstory by Pat Cadigan
• Two - (1988) - novelette by Pat Cadigan
• Angel - (1987) - shortstory by Pat Cadigan
• It Was the Heat - (1988) - shortstory by Pat Cadigan
• The Power and the Passion - shortstory by Pat Cadigan

Nebula and Sturgeon Award nominated short story. It orginally appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, January 1986. The story can be found in the anthologies The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourth Annual Collection (1987), edited by Gardner Dozois, The 1987 Annual World's Best SF, edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha, Modern Classics of Science Fiction (1991), edited by Gardner Dozios, Future on Fire (1991), edited by Orson Scott Card, and Beyond Flesh (2002), edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois. It is also included in the collection Patterns (1989).

This short story originally appeared in Omni, July 1985. It can also be found in the anthologies:

• The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection (1986), edited by Gardner Dozois
• Alien Sex (1990), edited by Ellen Datlow
• Invaders! (1993), edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois
• Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction (2005), edited by Gardner Dozois

The story is included in the collection Patterns (1989).

This short story originally appeared in the anthology Light Years and Dark: Science Fiction and Fantasy Of and For Our Time (1984), edited by Michael Bishop. It can also be found in the anthologies The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection (1985), edited by Gardner Dozois, Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology (1986), edtied by Bruce Sterling, and Hackers (1996), edited by Jack Dann and Gadner Dozois. The story is included in the collection Patterns (1989).

First published in 1991, this cyberpunk classic won the Arthur C. Clarke Award and was shortlisted for the Nebula Award

Synners are synthesizers--not machines, but people. They take images from the brains of performers, and turn them into a form which can be packaged, sold, and consumed. This book is set in a world where new technology spawns new crime before it hits the streets. The line between technology and humanity is hopelessly slim; the human mind and the external landscape have fused to the point where any encounter with reality is incidental. This classic novel from one of the founders and mainstays of the cyberpunk movement.

The Christmas Show, by Pat Cadigan, is the perfect Christmas story about a pair of sisters under a mysterious curse that forces them to travel around the US producing local theatrical productions. This Xmas, they're producing A Christmas Carol with the real ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come. Humorous and charming.

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Hugo and Locus Award winning novelette. It originally appeared in the anthology Edge of Infinity (2012), edited by Jonathan Strahan, and was reprinted in Clarkesworld, Februari 2018. The story can also be found in the anthology The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection (2013), edited by Gardner Dozois.

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Nebula Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in the collection Patterns (1989) and was reprinted in Omni, March 1990. It is also included in the anthologies The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Third Annual Collection (1990), edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror (2010), edited by Ellen Datlow.

This short story originally appeared in Is Anybody Out There? (2010), edited by Nick Gevers and Marty Halpern. It can also be found in the anthologies The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Five (2011), edited by Jonathan Strahan, and The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection (2011), edited by Gardner Dozois.

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In The Ultimate Cyberpunk, Cadigan takes readers through the evolution of this influential science fiction genre, from the groundbreaking forefathers of the field such as Alfred Bester, Philip K. Dick and Samuel R. Delany to the founding members of the cyberpunk movement, such as William Gibson, Bruce Sterling and forward through the such innovators as Neal Stephenson, Lewis Shiner and Rudy Rucker. In over 300 pages of stories, Cadigan presents the cyberpunk world in which reality and virtual reality intersect. The growing impact of the Internet on our sense of community, the seduction of a world behind the screen and the inherent dangers of a society in which any information can be hacked, stolen and sold, are some of the topics explored by our best cyberpunk writers.

As a bonus, The Ultimate Cyberpunk includes an exclusive 16-page full color section of the 'lost' second volume of the authorized adaptation of William Gibson's Neuromancer, a novel which to this day remains the defining work of the cyberpunk movement.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Not a Manifesto - essay by Pat Cadigan Fondly Fahrenheit - (1954) - novelette by Alfred Bester
• The Game of Rat and Dragon - (1955) - shortstory by Cordwainer Smith
• We Can Remember It for You Wholesale - (1966) - novelette by Philip K. Dick
• The Girl Who Was Plugged In - (1973) - novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.
• The 57th Franz Kafka - (1982) - shortstory by Rudy Rucker
• Burning Chrome - (1982) - novelette by William Gibson
• Blood Music - (1983) - novelette by Greg Bear
• Till Human Voices Wake Us - (1984) - shortstory by Lewis Shiner
• Freezone - (1985) - shortstory by John Shirley
• Dogfight - (1985) - novelette by Michael Swanwick and William Gibson
• Green Days in Brunei - (1985) - novella by Bruce Sterling
• Patterns - (1987) - shortstory by Pat Cadigan
• Dr. Luther's Assistant - (1993) - novelette by Paul J. McAuley
• Bruce Sterling's Idea of What Every Well-Appointed 'Cyberpunk SF' Library Collection Should Possess - essay by Bruce Sterling
• About the Authors - essay by uncredited

Hugo Award noinated novelette. It originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, April 1992. The story can also be found in the anthology Whatdunits (1992), edited by Mike Resnick. It is included in the collection Dirty Work (1993).

This novelette originally appeared in the anthology Poe: 19 New Tales of Suspense, Dark Fantasy and Horror (2006), edited by Ellen Datlow. It can also be found in the anthology The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Four (2007), edited by Jonathan Strahan.

How can you drink tea from an empty cup? That ancient Zen riddle holds the key to a baffling mystery; a young man found with his throat slashed while locked alone in a virtual reality parlor. The secret of this enigmatic death lies in an apocalyptic cyberspace shadow-world where nothing is certain, and even one's own identity can change in an instant.

Detective Lieutenant Doré Konstantin is up against it.

Konstantin is Chief Officer in charge of TechnoCrime, Artificial Reality Division. It sounds better than it is - in fact, the AR Division consists of three people and a case load of nearly impossible to solve crimes.

Now, as if handling her heavy case load almost single-handed weren't bad enough, she's got a stalker to deal with.

A woman named Susannah Ell claims that she is being stalked by her ex-husband, Hasting Dervish. It seems implausible at first - Dervish is an extraordinarily rich and powerful man, who should have better things to do. But as Konstantin starts to look into it, she discovers that it's not quite so impossible to believe: Dervish has traded places with an Artificial Intelligence, and is busy committing crimes no one has ever thought of before.

The official prequel novel to the highly anticipated film.

A long time ago there was the Great War. The reasons for the war have been lost to time. On the shattered surface of the Earth, there is a metropolis that lives amidst the garbage thrown down from the inhabitants of a sky city floating above it. Welcome to Iron City.

A lonely doctor specialising in cyborg repair, Ido, is doing his best to help the citizens of Iron City. But Ido has a double life, another persona born from the pieces of his broken heart.

Hugo, a young man surviving on a life of crime, spots the ultimate steal: an object that will unearth secrets from his own past.

And Vector, the most powerful businessman in the city, has his sights set on a new technology that will change the future of Iron City forever...

>The official novelization to the highly anticipated science fiction movie, Alita: Battle Angel.

In the twenty-sixth century, a female cyborg is rescued from the scrap heap by a scientist...

This short story originally appaered in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, June 1983 and was reprinted in Lightspeed, October 2012. It can also be found in the anthology The Year's Best Science Fiction: First Annual Collection (1984), edited by Gardner Dozois.

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Hopelessly lost in the trackless depths of interstellar space, the Jupiter Two, piloted by John and Maureen Robinson, is suddenly beamed aboard a starship the size of a small planet. Inside is a place beyond imagination where secret dreams can seemingly come true. Is this the Eden the Robinsons longed for when they first blasted off from a polluted, dying Earth? Or is it something more sinister? Are they honored guests--or helpless prisoners? The answer soon becomes clear as John and Maureen Robinson, their children, Penny, Will, and Judy, and their crewmates, the murderous stowaway Dr. Zachary Smith and swaggering fighter jock Don West, face their biggest challenge yet.