Richard Calder

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Richard Calder

Richard Calder (born 1956 in Whitechapel , London ) is a British science fiction writer.

Life

Calder's first SF publication was the short story Toxins , which appeared in an anthology in Interzone magazine in 1989 . In 1990 Calder moved with his wife to Thailand , where they ran a small shop in Nong Khai on the border with Laos and Calder wrote his first novel Dead Girls , which appeared in 1992. In the novel, set in 2071, the problematic love affair between the protagonists Ignatz Zwakh and Primavera Bobinski is told. Primavera is a Lilim , a vampiric half-robot who infects its victims with an AIDS-like disease. The two follow-up novels Dead Boys (1994) and Dead Things (1996) are about the same, strongly erotic, post- cyberpunk world of a late 21st century populated by half-dead half-robots and other human-machine hybrids . An omnibus edition of the Dead trilogy appeared in 1998.

In 2004 Dead Girls was supposed to be made into a film and Calder was to write a script, but the project failed. Instead of a film, a graphic novel was created in collaboration with the Filipino comic artist Leonardo M. Giron , which was published in sequels in Murky Depths from 2011 and finally as a comic album in 2014. In 2012 a German translation was published as Tote Mädchen , the third and thus the last volume in the New Gothic series published by Dietmar Dath by Suhrkamp . In 2014, a radio play adaptation with Janina Stopper as Primavera and Max Mauff as Ignatz was broadcast on Norddeutscher Rundfunk . Directed by Martin Heindel. In August 2017 the radio play was broadcast again on 1Live .

In the category " debut novel " came Dead Girls at the 1996 Locus Award to fourth place.

Calder returned to England in 1997. From 1999 to 2002 he lived in the Philippines .

bibliography

Dead girls
  • 1 Dead Girls (1992)
  • 2 Dead Boys (1994)
  • 3 Dead Things (1996)
  • 4 Going to a Go-Go (2012)
  • Dead Girls / Dead Boys / Dead Things (1993)
  • Cythera (1997)

Comic adaptations:

  • Dead Girls 1: The Last Of England (2010; with Leonardo M. Giron)
  • Dead Girls: The Graphic Novel (2014)
Lords of Soho
  • Incunabula (in: Interzone, # 159 September 2000 )
  • The Lady of the Carnelias (in: Interzone, # 161 November 2000 )
  • Lord Soho (in: Interzone, # 154 April 2000 )
  • Malignos (novel, 2000)
  • Espiritu Santo (in: Interzone, # 170 August 2001 )
  • The Nephilim (in: Interzone, # 164 February 2001 )
  • Roach Motel (in: Interzone, # 166 April 2001 )
  • Lord Soho: A Time Opera (Short Stories Collection, 2002)
Novels
  • Frenzetta (1998)
  • The Twist (1999)
  • Impakto (2001)
  • Lord Soho (2002)
  • Babylon (2005)
Short stories

1989:

  • Toxins (1989, in: John Clute , Lee Montgomerie, David Pringle and Simon Ounsley (Eds.): Interzone: The 5th Anthology )
  • Mosquito (in: Interzone, # 32 November-December 1989 )

1990:

  • The Lilim (in: Interzone, # 34 March-April 1990 )
  • The Allure (in: Interzone, # 40 October 1990 )

1996:

  • The Embarkation for Cythera (in: Interzone, # 106 April 1996 )

1998:

  • Lost in Cathay (1998, in: Rose Secrest and Jeff VanderMeer (Eds.): Leviathan 2: The Legacy of Boccaccio )

1999:

  • Malignos (in: Interzone, # 144 June 1999 )
  • Impakto (in: Interzone, # 150 December 1999 )

2002:

  • Zarzuela (in: Interzone, # 178 April 2002 )
  • The Dark (in: Interzone, # 181 August 2002 )

2003:

  • The Catgirl Manifesto (2003, in: Jeff VanderMeer (Ed.): Album Zutique # 1 )
  • Female Hyper-Orgasmic Epilepsy (2003, in: Jeff VanderMeer and Mark Roberts (Eds.): The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases )
  • Reminiscences (2003, in: Jeff VanderMeer and Mark Roberts (Eds.): The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases )

2005:

  • After the Party (3 parts in: Interzone, # 201 November-December 2005  ff .; also: After the Party: A Nymphomaniad , 2013)

2007:

  • Death and the Maiden (3 parts in: Murky Depths, September 2007  ff.)

2011:

  • Whisper (2011, in: Peter Crowther and Nick Gevers (Eds.): The New and Perfect Man (Postscripts # 24/25) )

2012:

  • Madeline Smith (2012, in: Peter Crowther and Nick Gevers (Eds.): Unfit for Eden: Postscripts 26/27 )

2014:

  • We Are Not Alone (2014, in: Nick Gevers (Ed.): Far Voyager (Postscripts # 32/33) )

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ John Clute , David Pringle , Simon Ounsley (Eds.): Interzone: The 4th Anthology. Simon & Schuster, 1989, ISBN 0-671-69707-2 .
  2. ^ Charles Tan: Interview with Richard Calder , accessed December 3, 2017
  3. ↑ The Lilim are in the Hebrew mythology, demonic children of Lilith .
  4. ↑ SFX Interview , accessed December 3, 2017
  5. ↑ First broadcast from November 19, 2014 on NDR Info (two parts, 47 minutes).
  6. ↑ Dead Girls , HörDat, accessed on December 3, 2017 (PDF)
  7. ↑ Dead Girls at WDR1 / 1Live, accessed on December 3, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Calder, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Flook, Christina (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Whitechapel , London