Richard Paul Russo

American science fiction writer (born 1954)

Richard Paul Russo
Born	1954 (age 69–70)
Occupation	Writer
Nationality	American
Education	Clarion Workshop
Genre	Science fiction
Notable awards	Philip K. Dick Award (1989)
Spouse	Candace

Richard Paul Russo (born 1954) is an American science fiction writer.

He attended the Clarion Workshop in 1983; his first story, "Firebird Suite", appeared in Amazing Stories in 1981 and his first novel, Inner Eclipse, was published in 1988. His second novel, Subterranean Gallery, won the Philip K. Dick Award for 1989. He won that award again in 2001 for Ship of Fools. Subterranean Gallery was also a finalist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award.

As of 2010 he lives in Seattle, Washington with his wife Candace, four cats and two dogs.

Bibliography

Novels

Inner Eclipse (1988)
Subterranean Gallery (1989)
Ship of Fools (2001)
The Rosetta Codex (2005)

Carlucci series

Destroying Angel (1992)
Carlucci's Edge (1995)
Carlucci's Heart (1997)

Carlucci - omnibus collection (2003)

Short story collection

Terminal Visions (2000)

Online stories

The Dread and Fear of Kings

External links

Sci-Fiction biography segment
Richard Paul Russo at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Golden Gryphon Press official site - About Terminal Visions

Reviews

Short story collection - Nick Gevers
Ship of Fools - John Grant
Ship of Fools - Claude Lalumière

Interviews

Interview at Infinity plus
Interview at scifi.com

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Philip K. Dick Award

Software by Rudy Rucker (1982)
The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers (1983)
Neuromancer by William Gibson (1984)
Dinner at Deviant's Palace by Tim Powers (1985)
Homunculus by James Blaylock (1986)
Strange Toys by Patricia Geary (1987)
Four Hundred Billion Stars by Paul J. McAuley (1988) (tie)
Wetware by Rudy Rucker (1988) (tie)
Subterranean Gallery by Richard Paul Russo (1989)
Points of Departure by Pat Murphy (1990)
King of Morning, Queen of Day by Ian McDonald (1991)
Through the Heart by Richard Grant (1992)
Growing Up Weightless by John M. Ford (1993) (tie)
Elvissey by Jack Womack (1993) (tie)
Mysterium by Robert Charles Wilson (1994)
Headcrash by Bruce Bethke (1995)
The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter (1996)
The Troika by Stepan Chapman (1997)
253: The Print Remix by Geoff Ryman (1998)
Vacuum Diagrams by Stephen Baxter (1999)
Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith (2000)
Ship of Fools by Richard Paul Russo (2001)
The Mount by Carol Emshwiller (2002)
Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan (2003)
Life by Gwyneth Jones (2004)
War Surf by M. M. Buckner (2005)
Spin Control by Chris Moriarty (2006)
Nova Swing by M. John Harrison (2007)
Emissaries from The Dead by Adam-Troy Castro (2008) (tie)
Terminal Mind by David Walton (2008) (tie)
Bitter Angels by C. L. Anderson (2009)
The Strange Affair of Spring-Heeled Jack by Mark Hodder (2010)
The Samuil Petrovitch Trilogy by Simon Morden (2011)
Lost Everything by Brian Francis Slattery (2012)
Countdown City by Ben H. Winters (2013)
The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison (2014)
Apex by Ramez Naam (2015)
The Mercy Journals by Claudia Casper (2016)
Bannerless by Carrie Vaughn (2017)
Theory of Bastards by Audrey Schulman (2018)
Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea by Sarah Pinsker (2019)
Road Out of Winter by Alison Stine (2020)
Dead Space by Kali Wallace (2021)

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