Richard Kadrey is an American writer of science fiction, fantasy and horror, born on 27 August 1957 in New York and based in San Francisco. After cyberpunk beginnings with “Metrophage” (1988), he became best known for the Sandman Slim novels, begun in 2009, about a magician who escapes from Hell to take revenge in Los Angeles; the series runs to more than a dozen volumes. He has also written “Butcher Bird” (2007), the Another Coop Heist books and, with Cassandra Khaw, the horror novel “The Dead Take the A Train” (2023).
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Richard Kadrey is an American writer of science fiction, fantasy and horror, born on 27 August 1957 in New York and based in San Francisco. After cyberpunk beginnings with “Metrophage” (1988), he became best known for the Sandman Slim novels, begun in 2009, about a magician who escapes from Hell to take revenge in Los Angeles; the series runs to more than a dozen volumes. He has also written “Butcher Bird” (2007), the Another Coop Heist books and, with Cassandra Khaw, the horror novel “The Dead Take the A Train” (2023).