Synners, 9780575119543
Paperback
Human synthesizers create crime where mind meets machine reality.

Synners

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

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  • Paperback

    496 pages

  • Release Date

    8 October 2012

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Summary

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.

In SYNNERS, 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.

A classic novel from one of the f…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780575119543
ISBN-10:0575119543
Author:Pat Cadigan
Publisher:Orion Publishing Co
Imprint:Gollancz
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:496
Release Date:8 October 2012
Weight:350g
Dimensions:198mm x 130mm x 32mm
Series:S.F. Masterworks
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Critics Review

Ambitious, brilliantly executed … Cadigan is a major talent

Read Synners now, before it happens

About The Author

Pat Cadigan

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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