Richard Calder
Richard Calder (born 1956) is a notable British science fiction writer who lives and works in the East End of London, but who spent over a decade in Thailand (1990–1997) and the Philippines (1999–2002).
A software plague is spreading through the human race. Transmitted by men, but active only in women, it transforms its victims on a genetic level into simulacra of themselves. These dolls – or dead girls – have the intelligence of supercomputers but no trace of human emotion.