The world is fragmenting; old technology litters the decaying streets; the tribes are at war. But only one thing matters to Duane Duarte - his love for Frenzetta. Yet theirs is a love that seems to be doomed in this corrupt and disintegrating world. For Duane is a reanimated corpse and Frenzetta is a beautiful princess for whom physical love means instant death. Their only choice is to set out on the frenzied, bizarre and violent journey that will take them to the one place where they can be together...Passionate, intense and piercingly intelligent, FRENZETTA is a brilliant and disturbing novel from a daring and innovative writer at the cutting edge of science fiction.
Richard Calder was born in 1956, in Whitechapel, London. In the mid seventies he read English Literature at the University of Sussex. After graduating he travelled extensively throughout South-East Asia and Australia and, upon returning to the UK, subsequently worked in bookselling, independent television and the American Embassy's press office. He became a full-time author in 1990 after moving from London to Nongkhai, Thailand, a border town overlooking Laos. In 1998 he moved to the Philippines, where he lived for some years in Baguio City. After returning to London, he currently resides in another 'East' -- his native East End.
His novels include the 'Dead' trilogy (Dead Girls, Dead Boys, Dead Things), Cythera, Frenzetta, The Twist, Malignos, Impakto, Lord Soho, and Babylon.
He is currently adapting his novel Dead Girls into a graphic novel, to be illustrated by Filipino artist Leonardo M Giron. The graphic novel will be serialised in the quarterly magazine Murky Depths, beginning with issue #9.
