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In 2004 Dead Girls was under option to an Australian film production company. Calder was commissioned to draft a screenplay. When however the film did not materialise he got the idea to re-imagine the book as a graphic novel. This was published in 2014. It is illustrated by Filipino artist Leonardo M Giron who was introduced to Richard Calder by Terry Martin the editor of the quarterly magazine Murky Depths. The graphic novel was originally serialised in the Murky Depths.

He was interviewed in the magazine Interzone in August 2001 about the theme of escape and his own attempts to break away from, "the physical and psychological constraints of the cloying suburbia of his childhood." He said:

Since 1992, he has produced a further nine novels, and about twenty short stories. A theme running through his work (such as in the 'Dead' trilogy) is agalmatophiliac male lust for young female gynoids, as well as the darker undercurrents of British national culture. His novels and stories have links and plot overlaps between one another, and together form a mythos.

Born at London, Calder began publishing stories in 1989, and first came to wider notice with the postcyberpunk novel Dead Girls (1992). Dead Girls expanded into a trilogy of books.

Calder's short stories have been published almost exclusively by the magazine "Interzone" since 1989. They are:

Richard Calder (born 1956) is a British science fiction writer who lives and works in the East End of London. He previously spent over a decade in Thailand (1990–1997) and the Philippines (1999–2002).