David Herter
David Herter is an American author. His first
Real-life composers figure heavily in Herter's First Republic trilogy (comprising On the Overgrown Path (2006), The Luminous Depths (2008) and One Who Disappeared). Set in interbellum Czechoslovakia, the trilogy stars Leoš Janáček, Pavel Haas, Arnold Schoenberg and Igor Stravinsky, as well as the writer Karel Čapek and his artist-brother Josef Čapek. The narrative employs modes of science fiction, fantasy and horror found in the works of Čapek and Franz Kafka, among others, and weaves a story that crosses and recrosses the fault lines of the short-lived Czechoslovak Republic. Critic and author Brian Stableford says in his introduction to One Who Disappeared, "David Herter’s trilogy, to which One Who Disappeared provides a spectacular and moving conclusion, does not fall; on the contrary, it remains perfectly suspended, sturdy and elegant—and by virtue of its topography, it does not, like more myopic literary projects, taper off into soothing closure, but opens wide to an even vaster and more glorious universe of possibility."
Herter lives in
Bibliography
Novels and novellas
- Ceres Storm (Tor, 2000)
- Evening's Empire (Tor, 2002)
- October Dark (Earthling Publications, 2010)
"First Republic" trilogy
- On the Overgrown Path (PS Publishing, 2006)
- The Luminous Depths (PS Publishing, 2008)
- One Who Disappeared (PS Publishing, 2011)
Short stories
"Black and Green and Gold"
- Featured in Postrscripts 3 edited by Peter Crowther (PS Publishing, 2005)
- Also featured in The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: The Year's Best Terror Tales edited by ISBN 0-7867-1833-1
"Islands Off the Coast of Capitola, 1978"
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