New Noir
Stories deal with the impact of television on self-image, the mental breakdown of a prostitute on crack, drug addiction, and modern city life.
Contents:
- Jodie and Annie on TV
- I Want to Get Married Says the World's Smallest Man!
- Equilibrium
- Skeeter Junkie
- Recurrent Dreams of Nuclear War Lead B.T. Quizenbaum into Moral Dissolution
- Just Like Suzie
John Shirley
John Patrick Shirley (born 1953) is an American science fiction and horror writer of novels, short stories, and television and film scripts.
John Shirley's most significant cyberpunk novels are City Come A-Walkin and the Eclipse (A Song Called Youth) trilogy. Avant-slipstream critic Larry McCaffrey called him "the post-modern Poe". Bruce Sterling has cited Shirley's early story collection Heatseeker as being a seminal cyberpunk work in itself. Indeed, several stories in Heatseeker were particularly seminal, including Sleepwalkers, which, in just one example, probably provided the inspiration for William Gibson's "meat puppets" in Neuromancer. Gibson acknowledged Shirley's influence and borrowing ideas from Shirley in his introduction to Shirley's City Come A-Walkin.
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