Pat Cadigan Books in Order

After using illegal mind-altering tech, Allie Haas is caught and forced to choose between prison and training as a Mindplayer. The job sends her into other people's psyches, where therapy, control, and exploitation are never far apart.

A young woman trying to save her brother from heroin addiction finds herself pulled into something even more predatory in the city around them. Cadigan blends urban horror with family desperation, making the story feel raw, angry, and close to the bone.

Brain Police officer Mersine goes undercover after a rising actor's mind is stolen and sold on the black market. What starts as an investigation into memory crime becomes a twisting identity story where even her own self may not be secure.

Told through letters and documents, this alternate-history novella imagines a United States reshaped by violence at the 1968 Democratic convention. Cadigan turns political upheaval into a sharp, uneasy story about myth, memory, and who gets to write history.

Cadigan's first collection gathers early stories that mix science fiction, horror, and psychological unease. Across the book, memory, media, addiction, and desire keep nudging ordinary lives into unnerving new shapes.

Artists, hackers, and media workers plug their minds directly into entertainment systems in a wired near future. When a new neural technology starts spreading something like a mental virus, the boundary between human thought and machine signal breaks down.

When actress Marva wakes with a murder memory that may not be hers, she has to figure out whose identity she is wearing. The chase that follows turns into a slippery thriller about mind theft, personality overlays, and survival.

This short story collection moves between science fiction, horror, and dark fantasy with Cadigan's usual taste for warped perception. The stories are intimate, unsettling, and full of people discovering that ordinary life has stranger edges than they expected.

A murder at an alien embassy draws investigator Farber into a case built on secrecy, custom, and the danger of seeing too much. It reads like a detective story first, but the deepest mystery is what identity looks like across species.

This later collection shows Cadigan ranging across science fiction, horror, and dark fantasy with a steady eye for human weakness. The stories are witty, unsettling, and interested in what happens when love, fear, or technology distorts the rules.

Paralyzed after a diving accident, Max uses Web link-ups to experience Realworld from a distance. What begins as escape becomes a thoughtful story about embodiment, risk, and what virtual freedom can and cannot replace.

Cadigan goes behind the scenes of the 1998 *Lost in Space* film, talking to cast and crew and digging into the production. It's a brisk making-of book about sets, effects, design problems, and how a big studio sci-fi movie comes together.

Still stranded after the film, the Robinson family and their uneasy companions are pulled aboard a colossal alien vessel where dreams seem possible. The apparent refuge quickly starts to look like a trap, and the Jupiter 2 crew must decide whom to trust.

This behind-the-scenes companion follows the making of the 1999 *The Mummy* film. Cadigan covers the cast, creature work, visual effects, and the practical business of turning old-school adventure horror into a modern blockbuster.

This omnibus gathers six linked stories set in a future where the Web is a fully immersive virtual realm. Different authors follow young people through online adventure, real-world danger, and humanity's first uneasy contact with something beyond itself.

Detective Dore Konstantin investigates claims that a powerful man is stalking his ex-wife from inside Artificial Reality itself. The case pushes her into a world where money, identity, and even physical presence can be faked or traded.

A kidnapped woman reaches a random stranger on a damaged cell phone and begs for help. As he races across Los Angeles to save her family, a corruption plot closes in and every dropped call starts to matter.

This tie-in pairs two Twilight Zone tech nightmares: one about a woman whose family no longer feels like her own, the other about a virtual fantasy companion who refuses to stay inside the game.

Cryogenically frozen serial killer Jason Voorhees is revived centuries later aboard a spaceship full of students and crew. Cadigan turns the film's gleefully absurd setup into a brisk science-fiction slasher with plenty of blood and panic.

A young man dies in Artificial Reality and in the physical world at the same time, pulling detective Dore Konstantin into a baffling murder case. Nearby, Yuki searches for a missing friend, and both paths lead toward the unsettling maze of Noo Yawk Sitty.

After Jason crash-lands and is rebuilt yet again, the government drags him into a secret research facility. A scientist hoping to weaponize his regenerative body instead unleashes a fresh round of chaos, clones, and slaughter.

Detective Dore Konstantin investigates a teenager killed both in Artificial Reality and in the physical world. The case pulls her deeper into Noo Yawk Sitty, where ownership, identity, and violence all blur together.

In a future where some space workers remake themselves into sea-creature forms called sushi, an injured human chooses to join them. The change opens questions about desire, status, and who gets to belong in a body built for the stars.

Mary and her friend Dee mark their town with secret chalk symbols, turning childhood territory into a map of danger and refuge. What begins as imaginative play shades into something stranger, sadder, and quietly haunting.

Two sisters travel from town to town staging local Christmas productions as part of a family curse. Cadigan turns that odd setup into a ghostly, darkly funny holiday story about theater, obligation, and finding connection in unlikely places.

At a British airbase, a lethal incident forces people to question the judgment of the AI security system meant to protect them. The story uses a classic ethics puzzle to ask what machine responsibility might really look like.

In Iron City, a cyborg girl wakes with no memory and a buried talent for combat. As Alita pieces together her past, she finds friends, enemies, and a power that the city's rulers desperately want to control.

Dr. Harleen Quinzel believes she can understand the Joker better than anyone else. This prose version of *Mad Love* follows her fall from Arkham psychiatrist to Harley Quinn, tracing obsession, manipulation, and the cost of mistaking chaos for love.

This prequel explores Iron City before Alita's arrival, following Ido, Hugo, and the ruthless forces that keep the scrapyard world running. It deepens the city's grime, class divide, and the uneasy dreams of people living under Zalem.

Elite assassin Henry Brogan is hunted by an operative who knows his every move before he makes it. The reason is worse than a leak or betrayal, his pursuer is a younger, faster clone of Henry himself.

This novel adapts William Gibson’s unfilmed Alien 3 script, following Hicks, Bishop, Ripley, and Newt after the Sulaco drifts into contested space. A new strain of xenomorph emerges aboard the Anchorpoint station amid Cold War tensions between rival human factions.

When a Being of Light merges with Science Patrol pilot Shin Hayata, Earth gains a towering defender against monsters and alien threats. Cadigan retells the classic series as a fast, clean battle between human courage and impossible danger.

As Earth faces waves of alien threats, the mysterious Dan Moroboshi fights beside the Terrestrial Defense Force and reveals his true form when humanity runs out of options. This adaptation leans into sacrifice, duty, and giant-scale battles.