Born in 1957 in Brooklyn, New York, United States.
"Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1957, the same year that Sputnik
went up and Ed Gein went to jail. Moved to Houston in '68. Attended
the Clarion Science Fiction Writers' Workshop in '78, and moved to
Los Angeles later that year. In '83, he moved to San Francisco and
has been there in the fog ever since.
"Recently, Kadrey was managing editor (and a contributing writer) to Wired magazine's 'Scenarios: The Future of the Future' special issue (October 1995). For almost two years before that, he was the Senior Editor at Future Sex , a quarterly magazine that looks at the intersection of technology and eroticism, and the future of sex in general. He's also appeared as a performer in HBO's Real Sex 9 and as an advisor in the CBC's Wired For Sex. Kadrey has also written two novels, Metrophage (Ace, 1988) and Kamikaze L'Amour (St. Martin's Press, 1995). In October 1993, St. Martin's Press published his first solo non-fiction book, the Covert Culture Sourcebook, a catalog of over 500 alternative books, zines, albums, videos and "tools" (everything from wearable computers to sex toys); the Covert Culture Sourcebook 2.0 (containing all new information) was published in November 1994.
"From 1990 to 1991 Kadrey edited the San Francisco Chronicle's
'Chronicle Whole Earth Catalog' column--a weekly grab bag of 'tools
and ideas,' a continuing extension of Stewart Brand's series of Whole Earth Catalogs from the 1960s and 70s. Before taking over the column, he was co-editor of Whole Earth's, Signal: Communication Tools for the Information Age , a non-fiction book examining communications and communications technology. Later, he helped edit an award-winning CD-ROM version of the book, called The Electronic Whole Earth Catalog. He has sold articles to such magazines as Wired, Omni, Mondo 2000, World Art, Reflex, Whole Earth Review, San Francisco Chronicle, Mississippi Review, bOING bOING, Interzone, Back Brain Recluse and Science Fiction Eye.
"Kadrey's short fiction has appeared in Omni, Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Interzone, Mississippi Review, Semiotext(e), Back Brain Recluse and a number of anthologies. His stories have been translated into Japanese, Russian, Italian and German. Metrophage, his first novel, has been published in the U.S., England, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Brazil, Israel, Italy and is forthcoming in Russia.
"Kadrey has also published illustrations in magazines and anthologies all over the world; his band, The Barraka Playboys, recently released their first self-produced tape, Magnetic Products .
"He has no qualifications for anything he does." --Richard Kaadrey (e-mailed to Mark/Space , Sunday 18 Feb 1996 15:24:09).
He has also been published in Storming the Reality Studio , 1991.
"On Christmas Day 1986, I sneaked into Versailles with another SF writer and a radical Peruvian philosopher, and had to scale a fifteen-foot wall, commando-style, to get out". --Richard Kadrey.
"It is possible that 'Kadrey' is actually 'Qadiri', and a descendant of the sufi shaykh Abdul Qadir Jilani". --Peter Lamborn Wilson (in Semiotext(e) SF 14 , 1989).
Pseudonym: Dr.Arkady Reich.
Also see:
"The Horse Latitudes" (an excerpt from Kamikaze L'Amour by Richard Kadrey)
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