Synners: The Arthur C Clarke award-winning cyberpunk masterpiece for fans of William Gibson and THE MATRIX

Name: Synners: The Arthur C Clarke award-winning cyberpunk masterpiece for fans of William Gibson and THE MATRIX
Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)

Pat Cadigan

Oct 2012 · Sold by Gateway

2 reviews

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435

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About this ebook

"Ambitious, brilliantly executed ... Cadigan is a major talent" - William Gibson

"Cadigan's multifaceted talent includes a strong gift for definitive hardcore cyberpunk" - Bruce Sterling

"...back in the early 90's [I was] enthralled by Cadigan's vision ... I found it's still a marvellous read and [I am] amazed at how prescient it was" - Amazon Reviewer

Synners are hardcore - an outlaw band of hackers, simulation pirates, and experience synthesisers hooked on artificial reality and virtual space. To be a Synner is to distort the line between technology and the human mind - fusing to the point where any encounter with "real-life" is incidental - all it costs is your freedom, and your humanity.

Synners shows us a world perilously close to our own. This classic novel by the Queen of Cyberpunk offers us a terrifying glimpse into the future of our race, and questions what it means to be human.

"Ambitious, brilliantly executed ... Cadigan is a major talent" - William Gibson "Cadigan's multifaceted talent includes a strong gift for definitive hardcore cyberpunk" - Bruce Sterling "...back in the early 90's [I was] enthralled by Cadigan's vision ... I found it's still a marvellous read and...

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Ratings and reviews

2 reviews

Joseph H. Vilas

January 29, 2016

Picked this up after seeing it as a lacuna on a list of cyberpunk essentials. It would have been cool, had I ever connected with it. But I didn't, and reading it was just drudgery. Too much repetition, too much trying to be cool, and, ultimately, too much work to read. Try something else instead.

Ross Winn

September 22, 2018

One of the best SF books of the last 50 years.

About the author

Pat Cadigan was born in 1953 in Schenectady, New York and grew up in Massachusetts, attending the University of Massachusetts. She moved to England in 1996. Her other books include Synners, Fools (both of which won the Arthur C. Clarke Award) and Patterns.

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