“Everything seemed to happen when you were looking the other way.”
Source: Synners (1991), Chapter 22 (p. 238)
Pat Cadigan, née le 10 septembre 1953 à Schenectady dans l'État de New York, est un auteur de science-fiction américain, dont les œuvres sont parfois décrites comme s'inscrivant dans le mouvement cyberpunk, bien qu'elle ne revendique pas cette appartenance. Wikipedia
“Everything seemed to happen when you were looking the other way.”
Source: Synners (1991), Chapter 22 (p. 238)
“Keep your best whiskey in a bottle marked ‘mouthwash.”
Source: Synners (1991), Chapter 5 (p. 57)
“The authenticity may have been dubious, but the excitement had been real.”
Source: Synners (1991), Chapter 9 (p. 93)
Cadigan (1993) in: " Interview with Pat Cadigan, May 1993 http://tamaranth.blogspot.nl/1993/05/interview-pat-cadigan-may-1993.html" in The Hardcore, 1993
“Ninety percent of life was being there, and the rest was being there on time.”
Source: Synners (1991), Chapter 32 (p. 389)
“Sometimes that’s all it takes to be a genius.”
Source: Synners (1991), Chapter 32 (p. 387)
“Aren’t they all?” Sam asked him.
Source: Synners (1991), Chapter 5 (pp. 52-53)
“If you’re really going to die on me, you could at least rub my neck before you go.”
Source: Synners (1991), Chapter 1 (p. 2)
“If you can’t fuck it, and it doesn’t dance, eat it or throw it away.”
Source: Synners (1991), Chapter 29 (p. 334; catch phrase repeated several times in the book)
Source: Short fiction, Picking Up the Pieces (2011), p. 191
Contexte: I pushed her back hard. “You don’t belong with them; you’re not special, you have no place in any unseen world; you’re like me and the rest of our family. Get used to it!” She looked at me like I’d slapped her.
“Oh, sorry,” I said, feeling equally stung by her reaction. “It’s hell being ordinary, but that’s the human condition.”
Source: Short fiction, Naming Names (1992), p. 389