Patterns (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Patricia Oren Kearney
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: Stories
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—cyberpunk
- Time of Work: The present and the near future
- Setting: The United States, particularly California
- Genres: Short fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Folkloric or magical people, Twentieth century, Extrasensory perception or powers, Future, California, West, U.S., Vampires
- Locales: California, United States
The Plot
These fourteen stories, all but one of which were previously published in various magazines and anthologies, can be classified into several groups. Those in the “cyberpunk trilogy”—“Rock On,” “Pretty Boy Crossover,” and “Angel”—all had some bearing on Pat Cadigan’s successful novel Synners (1989). In “Rock On,” a middle-aged female Synthesizer (“Sinner”) is trapped in a café by punks and made to work for them. She makes them successful but destroys them as effectively as an addictive drug. In “Pretty Boy Crossover,” a...
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