David Herter

David Herter lives outside Seattle, WA. His first novel CERES STORM was chosen by the editors of Amazon as one of the best science fiction novels of 2000, and listed by the Elliott Bay Book Company of Seattle as one of the ten best books of 2000. He has since written contemporary fantasy (EVENING'S EMPIRE), historical fantasy (ON THE OVERGROWN PATH) and epic science fiction (YAN TAN TETHERA, COLD HEAVENS).

"Fantastic!" ―Peter Straub on ONE WHO DISAPPEARED

“Distinctive and imaginative, a debut of immense promise”.―Kirkus Reviews on CERES STORM

“This epic unfolds in a seductive faerie tongue as we follow the perilous transformation of Daric from an adolescent boy into a primal galactic force. We flee with him along elusive coordinates as he deals with constructs that aid or hinder him, and one chromatic scene follows another as he escapes creatures who would bind him to their own uses. And so we move to a shattering climax. A beautiful read.”― Charles Harness on CERES STORM

“Through voyages on haunted spaceships, encounters with sentient plagues and descents into ancient tombs. . . bemused readers will sympathize with naïve Daric as one enigmatic incident follows another, characters shift from flesh to hologram to crystal to mechanical insect, and reality encompasses dream worlds, shared hallucinations and miniature cities. The book's a grand exercise in weirdness, cloaked in a coming of age story. It's a unique reading experience.” ―Starlog on CERES STORM

“Just as there are touches of D M Thomas's The White Hotel (1981) in Herter's depiction through his beloved Janáček of the warp and weave of a civilization under stress, so there are suggestions of Algernon Blackwood's The Willows (1907) in the way he spells his great composer into tranced rapport with whatever breathes inside the wood and does not wish to be carved into music.” —John Clute on ON THE OVERGROWN PATH

“THE LUMINOUS DEPTHS has a richness of prose and a density of allusion and ideas reminiscent of authors like Aldiss and Wolfe―and, incidentally, it is a page-turning cracker of a horror story. Outside his homeland, Karel Čapek may be remembered primarily through his legacy of the term Robot. It is Herter’s achievement in this novella to lead us through the narrow window of that single chthonic word to a rich evocation of a fragile, doomed period of Central European history.” ―Stephen Baxter on THE LUMINOUS DEPTHS