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2013 The Girl-Thing who Went Out for Sushi. Patricia Oren Kearney Cadigan (born September 10, 1953) is a British-American science fiction author, whose work is most often identified with the cyberpunk movement. [1] Her novels and short stories often explore the relationship between the human mind and technology.
Short story – “Pretty Boy Crossover” by Pat Cadigan. by mvallery. “Pretty Boy Crossover” by Pat Cadigan was first published in the January 1986 edition of Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine . I read it in the collection The Legend Book of Science Fiction, edited by Gardner Dozois and published in 1991. A wonderful story.
Nebula Award for Best Short Story. Summary. Pretty Boy is a handsome 16-year-old boy. One day, he’s dancing at a club, looking around. He loves the feeling of people wanting him, but he fears that, in a couple of years, his beauty will wither and he’ll never feel that ecstasy again.
The first four stories from Card's webzine: "Mazer in Prison," "Pretty Boy," "Cheater," and "A Young Man with Prospects," also appear in the paperback anthology Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show. Reprints of short stories in the Ender's Game series can be found in other science fiction anthologies.
Pretty Boy Crossover | WWEnd. Synopsis. Nebula and Sturgeon Award nominated short story. It orginally appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, January 1986.
Apr 24, 2006 · Title: Pretty Boy Crossover Title Record # 41039 Author: Pat Cadigan Date: 1986-01-00 Type: SHORTFICTION Length: short story Language: English User Rating: 7.00 (6 votes) Your vote: Not cast VOTE Current Tags: science fiction (1), cyberpunk (1), clubbing (1), decadence (1), personality upload (1) Add Tags
The story set in the same ethos of corporate and media intensity focusing on choice and the future as unexpectedly open. In the story, the Pretty boy charmed by the club culture as a star at the age of sixteen battles his adolescence as he inevitably ages and starts to lose what he benefits by his good looks hence anxious about the future.
