“Everything seemed to happen when you were looking the other way.”
Pat Cadigan book Synners
Source: Synners (1991), Chapter 22 (p. 238)
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In Synners, the line between technology and humanity is hopelessly slim. To be a Synner is to join the online hardcore, an outlaw band of hackers, simulation pirates, and reality synthesizers hooked on artificial reality and virtual space. Now you can change yourself to suit the machines - all it costs you is your freedom, and your humanity. Synners shows us a world perilously close to our own. A constant stream of new technology spawns new crime before it hits the streets, and the human mind and the external landscape have fused to the point where any encounter with "reality" is incidental. Equal parts thrill-ride and cautionary tale, this classic novel by the Queen of Cyberpunk offers us a terrifying glimpse into the future of our race. Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award for best novel, 1992
“Keep your best whiskey in a bottle marked ‘mouthwash.”
Pat Cadigan book Synners
Source: Synners (1991), Chapter 5 (p. 57)
“The authenticity may have been dubious, but the excitement had been real.”
Pat Cadigan book Synners
Source: Synners (1991), Chapter 9 (p. 93)
“Ninety percent of life was being there, and the rest was being there on time.”
Pat Cadigan book Synners
Source: Synners (1991), Chapter 32 (p. 389)
Pat Cadigan book Synners
“Sometimes that’s all it takes to be a genius.”
Source: Synners (1991), Chapter 32 (p. 387)
Pat Cadigan book Synners
“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.”
Pat Cadigan book Synners
Source: Synners (1991), Chapter 1 (p. 2)
“If you can’t fuck it, and it doesn’t dance, eat it or throw it away.”
Pat Cadigan book Synners
Source: Synners (1991), Chapter 29 (p. 334; catch phrase repeated several times in the book)
