Butcher Bird
Kadrey, Richard
Published: 2005
Type(s): Novels, Horror, Fantasy
Source: http://www.infinitematrix.net
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About Kadrey:
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."
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."
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.
Source: Wikipedia
Also available on Feedbooks for Kadrey:
• Metrophage (1988)
• SETI (2002)
• Zombie (2002)
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• A Cautionary Tale (2002)
• Ubiquitous Computing (2002)
