Richard Kadrey
Richard Kadrey is a San Francisco-based novelist, freelance writer, and photographer.
Kadrey's novels are Sandman Slim, Kill the Dead, Aloha From Hell, Metrophage, Kamikaze L'Amour, and Butcher Bird: A Novel Of The Dominion. Other works include collaborative graphic novels and over 50 published short stories.
Sandman Slim is one of 13 books listed on Barnes & Noble’s “Best Paranormal Fantasy Novels of the Last Decade”. The Dino De Laurentiis Company is currently developing Sandman Slim as a feature film. the second sand man slim novel "kill the dead" was released on October 2010. On October 18 the third installment of the sand man slim series was released titled "Aloha from hell."
Kadrey's short story Carbon Copy: Meet the First Human Clone was filmed as After Amy.
Metrophage has been referred to in reviews as "one of the quintessential 1980s cyberpunk novels."[1] BookList said of his Covert Culture Sourcebook 2.0, "even most with-it counterculture consumers may discover something new here.".[2]
His non-fiction books as a writer and/or editor include The Catalog of Tomorrow (Que/TechTV Publishing, 2002), From Myst to Riven (Hyperion, 1997), The Covert Culture Sourcebook and its sequel (St. Martin's Press, New York, 1993 and 1994); Kadrey also hosted a live interview show on Hotwired in the 1990s called Covert Culture. He was an editor at print magazines Shift and Future Sex, and at online magazines Signum and Stim. He has published articles about art, culture and technology in publications including Wired, Omni, Mondo 2000, the San Francisco Chronicle, SF Weekly, Ear, Artforum, ArtByte, Bookforum, World Art, Whole Earth Review, Reflex, Science Fiction Eye, Street Tech, and Interzone.
[edit] References
- ^ Tonnies, Mac. "Cyberpunk/Postmodern Book Reviews," http://www.mactonnies.com/postmodern.html
- ^ "Editorial Reviews," Barnes and Noble, http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Covert-Culture-SourceBook-20/Richard-Kadrey/e/9780312112554
[edit] External links
- Richard Kadrey's Web site
- Dispatches from Probability Beach Richard Kadrey's video blog
- Kaos Beauty Klinik Richard Kadrey's fetish photography site
- Blind Shrike Novel published by Richard Kadrey on The Infinite Matrix; this was an early version of Butcher Bird
- Downloads at Night Shade Books The download page for the publisher of Butcher Bird, containing a free download of the novel in multiple formats
- Metrophage Full text of Richard Kadrey's first novel
- Horse Latitudes Full text of one of Richard Kadrey's short stories
- NeoFiles Show #67: On Probability Beach with Richard Kadrey Richard Kadrey talks about Dispatches from Probability Beach and Kaos Beauty Klinik.
- After Amy IMDB entry for the film After Amy
- Richard Kadrey at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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