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John Shirley

(John Patrick Shirley)

(b.1953)

aka John Cutter, D B Drumm

John Shirley is the author of more than a dozen books including City Come A-Walking, Really Really Really Really Weird Stories (a collection of short fiction), and the newly reissued classic cyberpunk "A Song Called Youth" trilogy-Eclipse, Eclipse Corona, and Eclipse Penumbra. He is the recipient of the Horror Writers Association Bram Stoker Award and the International Horror Guild Award for his collection Black Butterflies. Shirley has fronted punk bands and written lyrics for his own music, as well as for Blue Oyster Cult and other bands. A principal screenwriter for The Crow, Shirley now devotes most of his time to writing for television and film.

Genres: Science Fiction, Horror, Western, Urban Fantasy, Fantasy

Series

Traveler
   2. Kingdom Come (1984)
   3. The Stalkers (1984)
   4. To Kill a Shadow (1984)
   5. Road War (1985)
   6. Border War (1985)
   8. Terminal Road (1986)

Song Called Youth
   1. Eclipse (1985)
   2. Eclipse Penumbra (1988)
   3. Eclipse Corona (1990)

Borderlands
   1. The Fallen (2011)
   2. Unconquered (2012)
   3. Gunsight (2013)

BioShock
Rapture (2011)

Watch Dogs
1. Dark Clouds (2014)

Sundown Riders (with Ralph Compton)
Prairie Fire, Kansas (2020)

Trail Drive (with Ralph Compton)
Red Trail (2020)

Trail of the Gunfighter (with Ralph Compton)
Broken Rider (2020)

Cleve Trewe Western
1. Axle Bust Creek (2022)
2. Gunmetal Mountain (2023)

Novels

   Transmaniacon (1979)
   Dracula in Love (1979)
   Three Ring Psychus (1980)
   City Come A-Walkin' (1980)
   The Brigade (1981)
   Cellars (1982)
   A Splendid Chaos (1988)
   In Darkness Waiting (1988)
   The Black Hole of Carcosa (1988)
   Wetbones (1991)
   Silicon Embrace (1996)
   Demons (2000)
   The View from Hell (2001)
   And the Angel With Television Eyes (2001)
   Spider Moon (2002)
   Crawlers (2003)
   Doom (2005)
   The Other End (2007)
   Black Glass (2008)
   Bleak History (2009)
   Everything is Broken (2011)
   The Crow: Death and Rebirth (2013)
   Doyle After Death (2013)
   Wyatt in Wichita (2014)
   A Dying Machine (2019) (with Mark Tremonti)
   Stormland (2021)
   A Sorcerer of Atlantis (2021)
   Sub Orbital 7 (2023)

Collections

   The Exploded Heart (1986)
   New Noir (1986)
   Heatseeker (1989)
   Black Butterflies (1998)
   Really, Really, Really, Really Weird Stories (1999)
   Darkness Divided (2001)
   Living Shadows (2007)
   Infernally Yours (2009) (with John Everson, Charlee Jacob, Brian Keene, Edward Lee and Maynard Sims)
   In Extremis (2011)
   The Devil's Coattails (2011) (with Gary A Braunbeck, Ramsey Campbell, Earl Hamner, Nancy Kilpatrick, Dan O'Bannon, Wilum Pugmire, Melanie Tem, Steve Rasnic Tem and Marc Scott Zicree)
   Lovecraft Alive! (2016)
   The Feverish Stars (2021)

Novellas

Her Hunger (2014)
High (2014)

Series contributed to

John Constantine, Hellblazer
   Constantine (2005)
   Warlord (2006)
   Subterranean (2006)

Batman
Dead White (2006)

Predator
Forever Midnight (2006)

Aliens (Dark Horse)
Steel Egg (2007)

Dungeons & Dragons: Forgotten Realms (with Kevin J Anderson, Alan Dean Foster, Jay Lake, Mike Resnick, Mark Sehestedt and Lisa Smedman)
Untold Adventures (2011)

Zombies vs. Robots
Z-Boyz in the Robot Graveyard (2012)

Resident Evil Novelizations
4. Retribution (2012)

Grimm
1. The Icy Touch (2013)

HALO
13. Broken Circle (2014)

Aliens Omnibus (with Diane Carey)
The Complete Aliens Omnibus: Volume Six (omnibus) (2018)

Non fiction

Gurdjieff (2004)
New Taboos: Plus... (2013)

Anthologies containing stories by John Shirley

Short stories

	Silent Crickets (1975)
	Tricentennial (1976)
	Under the Generator (1976)
	Will the Chill (1979)
	The Belonging Kind (1981) (with William Gibson)
	Triggering (1982)
	The Unfolding (1985) (with Bruce Sterling)
	Ticket to Heaven (1987)
	Six Kinds of Darkness (1988)
	Equilibrium (1989)
	Screens (1989)
	Pearldoll (1990)
	Ash (1991)
	"I Want to Get Married!" Says World's Smallest Man (1992)
	Where It's Safe (1992)
	The Rubber Smile (1993)
	Barbara (1995)
	War and Peace (1995)
	You Hear What Buddy and Ray Did? (1995)
	In the Cornelius Arms (1996)
	What Would You Do for Love? (1998)		Bram Stoker (nominee)
	Wings Burnt Black (1998)

Awards

	Bram Stoker Best Collection winner (1999) : Black Butterflies: A Flock on the Dark Side
	Bram Stoker Best Novellette nominee (1999) : What Would You Do for Love?

John Shirley recommends

The Flock (2006)
James Robert Smith
"The Flock is just amazingly fun to read."

Codename Prague (2011)
(Scikungfi Trilogy, book 2)
D Harlan Wilson
"This intense mixture of giddy activity, cyberpunk essences, avant fusion and social satire may make your head spin at an accelerated rate. Actual brain damage is unlikely, in most cases."

Dr. Potter's Medicine Show (2017)
Eric Scott Fischl
"A powerful alchemical elixir concocted of post Civil War historical fiction, dark fantasy, Felliniesque flavoring."

Destiny Nowhere (2017)
Matthew Hollis Damon
"Destiny Nowhere is scary but amusing, adventurous but thought provoking, wild but smartly fun... You can't go wrong with this one!"

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