Richard Kadrey

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Richard Kadrey is a novelist, freelance writer, and photographer based in San Francisco.

Kadrey's first novel, Metrophage, was published in hardcover in 1988 by Victor Gollancz Ltd., and went on to various other American and foreign printings in paperback. Mac Tonnies' Cyberpunk/Postmodern Book Reviews calls Metrophage "one of the quintessential 1980s cyberpunk novels," going on to describe "a gritty acid-trip through an ultraviolent L.A. where nothing is what it seems.... Alongside novels such as [William Gibson's] Neuromancer and Lewis Shiner's debut novel Frontera, Metrophage helped establish the cyberpunk aesthetic: relentless, paranoid and playfully cynical." 1

Kadrey's second novel, Kamikaze L'Amour, is described by the same source as "mesmerizing...a surreal (and distinctly Ballardian) account of synesthesia and mutant desire set in the jungle-choked ruins of L.A." 2

Kadrey's short story Carbon Copy: Meet the First Human Clone was filmed as After Amy.

The publisher website, Amazon booksellers, and other sources list a July 15, 2007 publication date for Kadrey's next book, Butcher Bird: A Novel Of The Dominion (Night Shade Books). Other works include collaborative graphic novels and over 50 published short stories.

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, and Interzone.

Tonnies, Mac. "Cyberpunk/Postmodern Book Reviews," http://www.mactonnies.com/postmodern.html

[edit] External Links

Dispatches from Probability Beach Richard Kadrey's video blog
Kaos Beauty Klinik Richard Kadrey's photography blog
Blind Shrike Novel published by Richard Kadrey on The Infinite Matrix.
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 Klinic.
After Amy IMDB entry for the film After Amy
Richard Kadrey at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database