Richard Calder (born 1956, London) is a notable British science fiction writer who lives and works in the East End of London, but who spent over a decade in Thailand (1990–1997) and the Philippines (1999–2002). 1956 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... St. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... The term East End is most commonly used to refer to the East End of London. ... St. ...

He began publishing stories in 1989, and first came to wider notice with the post-cyberpunk novel Dead Girls (1992). Dead Girls expanded into an acclaimed trilogy of books, for which he was compared to William Gibson, J.G. Ballard and Alfred Bester. The Edge said: "Richard Calder's 'Dead' trilogy was perhaps the most extraordinary of the many post-cyberpunk science fictions." In 2004 Dead Girls was reportedly under option to a film production company. 1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Cyberpunk (a portmanteau of cybernetics and punk) is a subgenre of science fiction which focuses on computers or information technology, usually coupled with some degree of breakdown in social order. ... There are a number of people who have been (or are) named William Gibson. ... James Graham Ballard (born November 18, 1930 in Shanghai) is a British novelist. ... Alfred Bester could refer to Alfred Bester a science fiction author Alfred Bester, a fictional character in Babylon 5, named for the author This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

Since 1992, he has produced a further seven novels, and around twenty short stories. A notable theme running through his work is agalmatophiliac male lust for young female gynoids, as well as the darker undercurrents of British national culture. His novels and stories have links and plot overlaps between one another, and together form a mythos. His "epic masterpiece" ("Reading Richard Calder", Claude Lalumière) is said to be Malignos (2000). Agalmatophilia is an uncommon sexual fetish or paraphilia, also known as Pygmalionism after the Greek myth of Pygmalion. ... Gynoid (from Greek gyne - woman) is a term used to describe a robot designed to look like a human female, as compared to an android modeled after a male. ...

He cites as inspirations Angela Carter and Georges Bataille, among others. Angela Carter (May 7, 1940-February 16, 1992) was an English novelist and journalist, known for her post_feminist magical realist works. ... Georges Bataille (September 16, 1897 – July 9, 1962) was a French writer, anthropologist and philosopher, though he avoided the latter term himself. ...

External links

• Richard Calder, official site
• Lost Pages, Richard Calder special edition & interview