Richard Paul Russo

Richard Paul Russo (born 1954) is an American science fiction writer based in Seattle who favors noir-inflected, morally shadowed futures. After attending the Clarion Workshop in 1983, he built a body of dark near-future thrillers, most notably the Frank Carlucci trilogy—Subterranean Gallery, Carlucci's Edge, and Carlucci's Heart—following a San Francisco police detective through an increasingly fractured city. He won the Philip K. Dick Award twice: in 1989 for Subterranean Gallery and again in 2001 for Ship of Fools, a generation-ship novel in which a derelict crew encounters an alien wreck, also a finalist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award. His other novels include Destroying Angel, the collection Terminal Visions, and The Rosetta Codex (2005), a far-future adventure of memory and lost civilization. Russo's fiction is known for its atmospheric grit and morally complicated protagonists.