![]() ![]() ![]() Throughout the 90s she continued to write exceptionally good short fiction, for OMNI and elsewhere. Though smaller in scope and girth than Synners, Fools marked another advance in Pat Cadigan's craft, not to mention her art, and may be the best of her books (ditto "so far"), although Synners may still have the edge for me in the sheer size of the ambition that powers its narrative. Her third, Fools (1992), pushed matters of identity (real and virtual) even further. That second novel, Synners (1991) pushed cyberpunk - and then some - in half a dozen simultaneous and simultaneously different directions, a huge leap in both craft and art over Mindplayers, and a major novel by any standards, not just those of cyberpunk.There was not a more complex, or more complexly provocative SF novel in the 1990s. ![]()
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