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''Dead Girls'' is the début novel by British science fiction author Richard Calder, and was first published in the UK in 1992 (HarperCollins) and 1995 in the US (St Martin's Press). The novel is the first in Calders 'Dead' trilogy, and is followed by the novels Dead Boys (novel) and ''Dead Things''. ==Background and Introduction== The novel was written in 1990, soon after Richard Calder had taken up residence in Thailand. He was living in Nongkhai, a small town on the Mekong River, overlooking Laos. He was also making frequent trips to Bangkok. Nongkhai, Bangkok and London are the story's most important locales.〔(SFX interview )〕 ''Dead Girls'' is a science fiction novel set in the year 2071 telling the tale of a virus that turns pubescent girls into vampiric gynoid dolls called Lilim, and the doomed love affair between 15-year-old Ignatz Zwakh and a Lilim assassin called Primavera. The idea for the quantum clockwork Cartier (jeweler) dolls comes from the story of Coppellia, a mechanical doll in one of the ''Tales from Hoffmann''. Richard Calder cites Jacques Offenbach's opera version of the tale in which Hoffmann falls in love with Olympia as being particularly influential.〔His Own Aesthetic Richard Calder interviewed by Charles Rudkin Interzone #170 August 2001, page 25〕 Another influence was the doll sculptures of Hans Bellmer 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dead Girls」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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