Pat Cadigan (1953 -)Pat Cadigan was born in Schenectady, NY, and grew up in Fitchburg, MA. Attending the University of Massachusetts on a scholarship, she eventually transferred to the University of Kansas where she received her degree.

Since embarking on her career as a fiction writer in 1987, her Hugo and Nebula Award-nominated short stories have appeared in such magazines as Omni, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine as well as numerous anthologies.

Her first collection, Patterns, was honoured the Locus Award in 1990, and she won the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1992 and 1995 for her novels Synners and Fools. Pat Cadigan moved to the UK in 1996 and now lives in London.

Paul Cornell has written some of Doctor Who's best-loved episodes for the BBC, as well as the novel Doctor Who- Nemesis of the Daleks with Dan Abnett.

He has also written on a number of comic book series for Marvel and DC, including X-men and Batman and Robin.

He has been Hugo Award-nominated for his work in TV, comics and prose, and won the BSFA award for his short fiction.