Richard Calder

• Jun-2014
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Whitechapel, London. 1888. Madeleine Fell is dreaming of Babylon. Not the Victorian Babylon of London, but a second, Mesopotamian Babylon that exists in a parallel dimension, a world populated and ruled by Ishtar's sacred prostitutes that has of late...

• Jun-2014
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'Another gem in this anthology is Richard Calder's "The Catgirl Manifesto: An Introduction," a weird story masquerading as a scholarly introduction on the origin and effects of an extremely seditious document. It successfully builds what feels like a...

• Jun-2014
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In 'Toxine', a story first published in Interzone: The 4th Anthology, Richard Calder reworks in modern dress some aspects of the myth Offenbach took from Hoffmann and Hoffmann drew from the deep fears of the race; his tale of redressing is poisonous,...

• Feb-2014
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Richard Calder's controversial novella After the Party: A Nymphomaniad is a companion to the author's novel Babylon. It can be seen as a culmination of Calder's long fascination with issues of eroticism: the association of orgasm with death; the feti...

• Jan-2004
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John Twist, gunslinger, prowls a landscape that is a weird mix of Wild West and science fiction pulp tales. In the aftermath of the Venusians' arrival on Earth in the 1950s, a "psychogeographic event" occurs, separating the old Wild West from the res...

• May-2002
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Technology from the past litters the streets, and the old world has fragmented. But only one thing matters to the man-monster Duane Duarte: his love for the murderous Frenzetta, a 17-year-old half-rat, half-human. Duane Duarte is a revenant, or reani...

• Apr-1998
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The illegal immigrants of the year 2025 aren't from the Third World--they're from cyberspace. The acclaimed author of DEAD BOYS, DEAD GIRLS, and DEAD THINGS writes a lyrical science fiction novel about a future in which ghosts from the Internet are i...

• Feb-1998
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This extraordinary trilogy depicts a future gender war that crosses the boundaries of software, wetware, time, and reality itself in its imaginative leaps and bounds. Only love holds the future together in this tale of star-crossed teens whose tra...

• Feb-1997
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• Mar-1996
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A sequel to Dead Girls finds the human race beleaguered by a war between the Lilim, a sensual and destructive female species, and the Elohim, a male nanotech-created fanged-angel super-humanoid race....

• Jun-1995
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Falling in love with Primavera, a half-human, half-gynoid blood drinker, Ignatz Zwakh enjoys the adventure of a supernatural lifetime, until his beloved Primavera is infected with a deadly magic dust. Reprint....