A city with full liberties and complete autonomy, away from the dangers, vices, restrictions and dubious moralities of the outside world. World war, nuclear bombs, dictatorships, destruction, massive poverty slowly devastating the world in the mid-twentieths century. Would you kindly read an obscene amount of books? John Shirley story collections include BLACK BUTTERFLIES, IN EXTREMIS, REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY WEIRD STORIES, and LIVING SHADOWS. John Shirley has written only one nonfiction book, GURDJIEFF: AN INTRODUCTION TO HIS LIFE AND IDEAS, published by Penguin/Jeremy Tarcher. He is also a lyricist, having written lyrics for 18 songs recorded by the Blue Oyster Cult (especially on their albums Heaven Forbidden and Curse of the Hidden Mirror), and his own recordings. STORMLAND and other John Shirley novels are available as audiobooks. His new story collection is THE FEVERISH STARS. His most recent novels are STORMLAND and (forthcoming) AXLE BUST CREEK. His novel BIOSHOCK: RAPTURE telling the story of the creation and undoing of Rapture, from the hit videogame BIOSHOCK is out from TOR books his Halo novel, HALO: BROKEN CIRCLE is coming out from Pocket Books. He has been several Year's Best anthologies including Prime Books' THE YEAR'S BEST DARK FANTASY AND HORROR anthology, and his nwest story collection is IN EXTREMIS: THE MOST EXTREME SHORT STORIES OF JOHN SHIRLEY.
He is also a screenwriter, having written for television and movies he was co-screenwriter of THE CROW. John Shirley won the Bram Stoker Award for his story collection Black Butterflies, and is the author of numerous novels, including the best-seller DEMONS, the cyberpunk classics CITY COME A-WALKIN', ECLIPSE, and BLACK GLASS, and his newest novels STORMLAND and A SORCERER OF ATLANTIS.
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