Richard Calder

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Richard Calder

Impakto

pbk 03 Sep 01

Malignos

The Twist

Cythera

Books By Richard Calder

About the Author

Bibliography

British Pbk Original - Earthlight (2001)

Impakto
Raul Riviera is Impakto – an aborted child who refused to die. But he has not realised this for forty years, until he is approached by another such on a flight back to his home in the Philippines. And now his life begins anew…
Rebuilt like a grand guignol Six Million Dollar Man after the plane he is travelling in crashes, Riviera and his artificer, Maximillia Morales, journey through unknown regions to destroy both the Lords of his own, Impakto world, and the King of Heaven who created them. Through demons, angels and to the very gates of Heaven themselves, Raul Riviera stalks his enemies and pursues his love – Maximillia.
Praise for Richard Calder
‘Dark, edgy and inflicted with just the right degree of lyricism’ William Gibson 'Stunning' Science Fiction Age
'As rich, dense and intricate as any recent SF’ The New York Review Of Science Fiction
‘Brilliant’ Washington Post Book World

British Pbk Original - Earthlight (2000)

Malignos
Richard Pike is a hero. Slayer of demons, swordfighter par excellence, philanderer. In the fifty-third century he is banished from his beloved Darkling Isle of England and scrapes a living in the Pilipinas - Far Eastern islands - with his lover, Gala.
Gala is a malignos, and the cause of his exile…
It is said that a cataclysm in a parallel universe, some time late in the twenty-first century, flooded our own universe with particles that perverted men's minds and souls. The ability to invent or maintain technology vanished and a dark age followed. Gradually, those whose minds had been perverted evolved - or were modified - into demon-like beings who sought sanctuary in the earth's depths. These beings are known as goblins in the West, as malignos in the East.
Pike must quest through the vast underground world of the malignos to find an antidote for the poison which has turned his beloved Gala into a vegetable. In doing so, he comes face to face with himself as much as the dangers of the weird, subterranean universe. Richard Calder's latest novel contains his own black humour as well as a welter of fantastical inventiveness which stands head and shoulders above most SF and Fantasy.

British Pbk Original - Earthlight (1999)

The Twist
When the Venusians arrived, it all changed, Eaters of our souls, the young women - as they appeared - caused a psychogeographic event to separate the old west of the USA from the rest of the planet.
Now, in the 1950s, gunslingers and shootists still ply their trade; good-time girls still hang out in bars; and no modern technology will work. But good old Venusian know-how is in demand to help win the Cold War.
Richard Calder has one of the most original imaginations in the history of science fiction. Here, he introduces us to John Twist, shootist. To Miss Viva Venera, Venusian necrobabe, who hungers for Twist's soul. And to Nicola E. Newton, a young girl who is drawn to them both and whose life – and death - will never be the same. The illegitimate child of Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven and Dr Strangelove, yet wholly original, The Twist will enthral, amuse and shock…
'Dark, edgy and inflicted with just the right degree of lyricism' William Gibson
Praise for Richard Calder
'Stunning' Science Fiction Age
'As rich, dense and intricate as any recent SF’ The New York Review Of Science Fiction
‘Brilliant’ Washington Post Book World

British Pbk Original - Orbit (1998)

Cythera
He has many names - Zane Weary, Jack Pimpernel, Max Moroder. Tarquin - and many pasts. But only one ghost. The beautiful Dahlia Chan.
Together, they roam the icy wastes of the despoiled Antarctic and prowl the corrupt streets of Bangkok. one short step ahead of the authorities, one long, weary journey from their goal.
For only on the island of Cythera can the love of a man for a downloaded computer image be real. Only there can she be safe from the brutal forces of repression. But Cythera is a myth, the figment of a diseased imagination …
Bizarre, perverse and brilliant, Richard Calder's Cythera is science fiction with a razor-sharp edge.
Praise for Richard Calder:
'Dark, edgy and inflicted with just the right degree of lyricism' William Gibson
'Brilliant... an intricate turbocharged plot' Washington Post Book World
'A future world as rich, dense and intricate as any in recent sf' New York Review of Science Fiction
'Convincing and terrifying... exotic and brutal' Locus
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About The Author
Richard Calder was born in London in 1956. He moved to Thailand in 1990, where he lived in Nongkhai, a border town overlooking Laos. He returned to London in 1996. His short stories and reviews have been published in many science fiction magazines, including Interzone, Science Fiction Eye and Omni, and his work has been translated into Japanese.

Bibliography
N.B. dates and publishers in dark red indicate British First Editions. Dates and publishers in black indicate recent reprints.

Impakto (Earthlight Pbk, 2001) Pbk Sep 01

Malignos (Earthlight Pbk, 2000)

The Twist (Earthlight Pbk, 1999)

Cythera (Orbit Pbk, 1998)

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