John Shirley: 74 books

“An allegory for our time, full of creepy splendorand excitement . . . Demons is a brave and smart book. Read it if you dare.”—San Francisco Bay Guardian “Demons is funny, outrageous, and frightening, and, as a metaphor for our times, it works frighteningly well.”—Rocky Mountain...

One of the darkest, edgiest, boldest writers around, John Shirley lays down an adrenalized yet artful prose that fairly skids across the page, dragging the reader along into shadowed corners of terror and desire. Yet while it's thrilling, there's psychological depth, too, as Shirley bores into the...

Die Punk-Sängerin Catz Wailen hat einen absonderlichen Ruf, aber sie steht für ihre Freunde ein. Dazu gehört Stu Cole, Besitzer des *Anesthesia-*Clubs, der in San Francisco als einer der Letzten der Mafia trotzt und seinen Club unabhängig zu halten versucht. Eines Nachts taucht bei Catz' Konzert...

"John Shirley's prophet-in-the-cyberwilderness voice deserves high billing among the best." — Roger Zelazny This classic of cyberpunk literature brings John Shirley's "A Song Called Youth" trilogy to a thrilling conclusion. After the fundamentalists of the Christian Fascist Second...

A near-future where technology and ancient spiritual secrets merge into something very strange... something as strange as a silicon embrace. America has suffered ecological breakdown and the Second Civil War. But the balkanization of the U.S.—along with humanity’s secret history and what has really...

2013 A.D. Angesichts einer unübersehbaren Bevölkerungskrise und von drohenden globalen Konflikten wird die Menschheit vor eine unausweichliche Wahl gestellt: Krieg und Zerstörung oder Übergang zur nächsten Stufe der psychischen Entwicklung. Dann jedoch geschieht das Unvorhersehbare...

Author John Shirley turns his pen to the Wild West and the legendary Wyatt Earp! Wyatt in Wichita fuses historical fact with fiction, following the adventures of the young Wyatt Earp. Following the tragic loss of his first wife in the Missouri of 1870 in his early days on the dark side of the...

Mixing outlaw humour, sci-fi adventure and cutting social criticism, original 'Dread Lord' of Cyberpunk, John Shirley, draws upon his arsenal of narrative and commentary in New Taboos. The title piece is Shirley's prescription for a radical re-visioning of America. A new short story, 'State of Imprisonment',...

Further explore the world of Watch Dogs with a new story, an entirely digital novel project created inside Ubisoft in collaboration with John Shirley, prolific author and pioneer of the cyberpunk movement John Shirley naturally transcribed Watch Dogs’ atmosphere, the world of hacking and...

Darkness can be divided. -It can be split like an atom, and in it can be found a destructive fire-or light. Light, too, can be folded into darkness. The stories brought to light in John Shirley's stunning DARKNESS DIVIDED -- most of them never before collected, some written especially for this book--are...

"Vivid, dense, powerful imagery … hard to put down!" — Washington Post "A complex, bizarre, and unique vision of the near future with a kaleidoscopic mix of politics, pop, and paranoia." — Bruce Sterling "John Shirley was cyberpunk's patient zero, first locus of the...

No writer combines the "delight in dread" with social consciousness and metaphysical meaning the way John Shirley does. Although In Darkness Waiting begins in much the same vein as many horror novels (mysterious deaths; a small town invaded by evil; plucky, attractive young lovers; the logical...

Poursuivez votre exploration de l’univers de Watch Dogs avec une histoire totalement inédite ! Découvrez Dark Clouds, le roman au format numérique fruit de la collaboration d’Ubisoft et de John Shirley, écrivain prolifique et pionnier du courant cyberpunk. John...

Erforschen Sie die Welt von Watch_Dogs mit einer ganz neuen Geschichte noch weiter - und zwar mit einem vollständig digitalen Roman, erschaffen von Ubisoft in Zusammenarbeit mit dem bekannten Schriftsteller John Shirley, einem Pionier der Cyberpunk-Bewegung. John Shirley bündelte...