Inventive setting and nice narrative from Cadigan, as a young woman narrates a visit to their Martian colony by a representative from Earth.
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Pat Cadigan. The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi. (Edge of Infinity).
Cadigan gets the solar system-constrained themed collection off to a fine start, with a narrator a calamarically long way from home…
Pat Cadigan. You Never Know. (Solaris Rising)
As we begin to realise what is about to happen/has happened, the tension mounts to give a very focussed human perspective on a global event
Pat Cadigan. Cody. (trsf: The Best New Science Fiction)
Sort of cyberpunk as it might happen now, as opposed to the cyberpunk as we imagined it in the 80s.
Pat Cadigan. Truth and Bone. (The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Four)
Can fate be cheated?
Pat Cadigan. The Taste of Night. (Is Anybody Out There?)
A young woman living on the streets is struggling with an sensory overload – is it synesthesia, or a sixth sense?
Eclipse 3. (ed Jonathan Strahan).
Nicely complements the Strahan/Dozois New Space Opera anthology series, starting with several stories of the contemporary, speculative type.
Pat Cadigan. Don’t Mention Madagascar. (Eclipse Three, ed. Jonathan Strahan.)
Suffers a tiny bit through being the third story in a row that opens the volume with a relatively contemporary setting and light touch in terms of the SF/F elements, leaving this reader still waiting to properly take off.