Richard Paul Russo

Richard Paul Russo (born 1954 in San Jose, California) is an American science fiction author.

Life

Richard Paul Russo's first publication of his second novel, Subterranean Gallery was the short story Firebird Suite (as Richard P. Russo ) in Amazing Stories in September 1981. His first novel, Inner Eclipse (Eng. inside Eclipse, 1993) appeared in 1988. ( 1989) ( dt. underground Gallery, 1994) won the Philip K. Dick Award and was a finalist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award. It was followed by the Carlucci trilogy with Destroying Angel (1992 ) (Eng. angel of destruction, 1999), Carlucci's Edge (1995) and Carlucci 's Heart (1997). In the dense atmospheric Carlucci novels Russo describes a dystopian cyberpunk world - trashy. For his novel Ship of Fools succeeded Russo again won the Philip K. Dick Award. His work also appeared in Italy and Israel.

Richard Paul Russo lives in Seattle.

Publications

Novels

Indicated are the first edition:

• Inner Eclipse. Gate, New York City, 1988, ISBN 978-0-812-55256-0.
• Subterranean Gallery. Gate, New York City, 1989, ISBN 978-0-812-55259-1.
• Destroying Angel. Headline, London 1992, ISBN 978-0-7472-3885-0.
• Carlucci 's Edge. Ace, New York City 1995, ISBN 978-0-441-00205-4.
• Carlucci's Heart. Ace, New York City 1997, ISBN 978-0-441-00485-0.
• Ship of Fools. Ace, New York City 2001, ISBN 978-0-441-00798-1. The British edition was published by Orbit Books in 2003 under the title Unto Leviathan.
• The Rosetta Codex. Ace, New York City 2005, ISBN 978-0-441-01330-2.

Short story collections

• Terminal Visions. Golden Gryphon Press, Urbana 2001, ISBN 978-0-9655901-3-6.