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

Kadrey's novels are Sandman Slim, Kill the Dead, Aloha From Hell

Aloha from Hell

Aloha from Hell was a German rock band. They won a competition in the German magazine Bravo. After the win they released "Don't Gimme That." Their first album, No More Days to Waste, sold more than 200,000 copies.- History :...

, 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. In Fall 2009 Kadrey completed the second Sandman Slim novel, Kill The Dead.

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." BookList

Booklist

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 said of his Covert Culture Sourcebook 2.0, "even most with-it counterculture consumers may discover something new here.".

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

Hotwired

Hotwired is the third studio album from The Soup Dragons. Recorded in 1991 and 1992 at Livingston Studios and Advision Brighton, it was released April 21, 1992....

 in the 1990s called Covert Culture. He was an editor at print magazines Shift

Shift (magazine)

Shift was a Canadian magazine, devoted to technology and culture. It has now ceased publication as a print magazine. Its website continued to publish new content for at least a year after the print title was discontinued, but is no longer in operation....

 and Future Sex

Future Sex

Future Sex was a 1990s magazine based in San Francisco and published by Kundalini Publishing. The magazine was glossy with four-color printing and featured articles, interviews, reviews, erotica, and erotic photography celebrating the zeitgeist of technological revolution, body modification, sexual...

, and at online magazines Signum

Signum

Signum is Latin for "sign" and may refer to:* Signum function or sign function in mathematics* Signum, a part of the female Lepidoptera genitalia* Signum , a 1995 by German industrial music artist P·A·L* Signum Framework...

 and Stim. He has published articles about art, culture and technology in publications including Wired

Wired (magazine)

Wired is a full-color monthly American magazine and on-line periodical, published since January 1993, that reports on how new and developing technology affects culture, the economy, and politics...

, Omni

Omni (magazine)

OMNI was a science and science fiction magazine published in the US and the UK. It contained articles on science fact and short works of science fiction...

, Mondo 2000

Mondo 2000

Mondo 2000 was a glossy cyberculture magazine published in California during the 1980s and 1990s. It covered cyberpunk topics such as virtual reality and smart drugs. It was a more anarchic and subversive prototype for the later-founded Wired magazine....

, the San Francisco Chronicle, SF Weekly

SF Weekly

SF Weekly is a free alternative weekly newspaper in San Francisco, California. The newspaper, distributed throughout the San Francisco Bay Area every Wednesday, is published by Village Voice Media, a 16-paper alt weekly newspaper chain that also includes the New York City Village Voice and the Los...

, Ear

Ear

The ear is the organ that detects sound. It not only receives sound, but also aids in balance and body position. The ear is part of the auditory system....

, Artforum

Artforum

Artforum is an international monthly magazine specializing in contemporary art.-Publication:The magazine is published ten times a year, September through May, along with an annual summer issue...

, ArtByte, Bookforum

Bookforum

Bookforum is a New York-based magazine devoted to books and the discussion of literature. It is edited by Albert Mobilio, Chris Lehmann, , and Michael Miller.-History: Bookforum was launched in 1994 as a literary supplement to Artforum...

, World Art, Whole Earth Review

Whole Earth Review

Whole Earth was a magazine which was founded in January 1985 after the merger of the Whole Earth Software Review and the CoEvolution Quarterly. All of these periodicals are descendants of Stewart Brand's Whole Earth Catalog...

, Reflex

Reflex

A reflex action, also known as a reflex, is an involuntary and nearly instantaneous movement in response to a stimulus. A true reflex is a behavior which is mediated via the reflex arc; this does not apply to casual uses of the term 'reflex'.-See also:...

, Science Fiction Eye, Street Tech

Street Tech

Street Tech is a personal technology review website founded by the writer, editor, and media critic Gareth Branwyn. Street Tech apparently uses the Slashdot software. In addition to occasional writings by "Cyborg-in-Chief" Gareth Branwyn, Street Tech has regular sections, forums, and news...

, and Interzone

Interzone

Interzone may refer to:* International zone, such as in Tangiers* Interzone , the title of a short story collection by William Burroughs; it is also a setting in his 1959 novel Naked Lunch...

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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