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

Kadrey's novels are Sandman Slim, Kill the Dead, 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 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 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, Street Tech, and Interzone.

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