Tea From an Empty Cup (29 page)
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Authors: Pat Cadigan
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Novels
Mindplayers
(1987)
Synners
(1991)
Fools
(1992)
Tea From An Empty Cup
(1998)
Dervish is Digital
(2000)
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Collections
Patterns
(1989)
Home by the Sea
(1992)
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Dirty Work
(1993)
For:
Ellen Datlow
,
The sister I never had
The editor I’ve always needed
Keith Ferrell
Who made me start it
In the first place
And then kept demanding more
Beth Meacham
For patience, insight, patience
,
Good humor, intelligence, patience
,
Excellence in editing, and did I mention patience?
Joy Chamberlain
For reading it so conscientiously and
Naming it so perfectly
Merrilee Heifetz
Who endured every moment
Right along with me
And didn’t complain
Although she could have
I know, that’s a lot of dedication
For one book –
So are they.
These people, each in their various direct and/or indirect ways, made my world a better place. Thank-yous to:
Gardner Dozois and Susan Casper (for decades of friendship and good times), Cindy Wike (a real superhero), John and Judith Clute (for the upstairs room), Mike Harrison (for being so supportive), Mary Ellen Rose (I’m proud to call you my friend), the Kansas City Science Fiction Society (especially for all that help on the last night), overlapping with the Borders SF Book Club 1994-6 (we miss you all), Jack Womack (for last-minute accommodations and great conversation), Maggie Flynn (for her usual wonderfulness), Kim Newman (for incitement to emigrate), Paul McAuley (for having talent
and
class), The Artist Formerly Known As Jael (for improving the quality of our Sundays), Oisin Murphy-Lawless (for energy and enthusiasm), Mic Cheetham (more fabulous in an hour than most people are in their whole lives), Tricia Sullivan (you
go
, girl), Jeannie Hund (girlfriend, you’re world-class), my son Bob and his Grandma Helen (for putting so much life in my life), our friends at Harringay Cars (for making sure Bob and Grandma get there and back again safely), and my husband, the Original Chris Fowler (for the rose, and everything after).
Pat Cadigan (1953 -)
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 has 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.
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Copyright © Pat Cadigan 1998
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ISBN 978 0 575 12027 3
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