John Shirley

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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Series by John Shirley
Predator (11 books)
Halo (17 books)
Batman (11 books)
Resident Evil (11 books)
Borderlands (3 books)
Bioshock (1 books)
Grimm (2 books)
Books by John Shirley
Dracula in Love N/A
Transmaniacon N/A
City Come A-Walkin' N/A
Three-Ring Psychus N/A
The Brigade N/A
Cellars N/A
Eclipse (A Song Called Youth #1) N/A
In Darkness Waiting N/A
Kamus of Kadizar: The Black Hole of Carcosa N/A
A Splendid Chaos N/A
Eclipse Penumbra (A Song Called Youth #2) N/A
Heatseeker N/A
Eclipse Corona (A Song Called Youth #3) N/A
Wetbones N/A
New Noir N/A
Silicon Embrace N/A
The Exploded Heart N/A
Black Butterflies N/A
Really, Really, Really, Really Weird Stories N/A
Demons N/A
...And the Angel with Television Eyes N/A
The View from Hell N/A
Darkness Divided N/A
Spider Moon N/A
Crawlers N/A
Constantine N/A
Doom N/A
War Lord N/A
Subterranean N/A
Predator: Forever Midnight N/A
Batman: Dead White N/A
The Other End N/A
Aliens: Steel Egg N/A
Living Shadows N/A
Black Glass N/A
Bleak History N/A
The Fallen (Borderlands #1) N/A
Rapture N/A
In Extremis: The Most Extreme Short Stories of John Shirley N/A
Everything Is Broken N/A
Resident Evil: Retribution N/A
Unconquered (Borderlands #2) N/A
Gunsight (Borderlands #3) N/A
The Icy Touch N/A
Broken Circle N/A
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Speculative Fiction Novels (43)


2021 | science fiction > cyberpunk, thriller
(Halo)
2014 | science fiction
(Borderlands #3 / 3)
2013 | science fiction
(Grimm)
2013 | fantasy
(Borderlands #2 / 3)
2012 | science fiction
(Resident Evil)
2012 | science fiction, horror

2012 | science fiction, thriller
(Borderlands #1 / 3)
2011 | science fiction
(Bioshock)
2011 | science fiction

2011 | horror, short stories

2009 | fantasy

2008 | science fiction

2007 | science fiction
(Aliens)
2007 | science fiction

2007 | science fiction, fantasy, short stories, thriller
(John Constantine, Hellblazer)
2006 | fantasy
(John Constantine, Hellblazer)
2006 | fantasy
(Predator)
2006 | science fiction
(Batman)
2006 | science fiction

2005 | fantasy

2005 | science fiction

2003 | horror

2001 | fantasy

2001 | horror

2001 | science fiction, fantasy, short stories, thriller

2000 | science fiction, horror

1999 | science fiction, fantasy, horror, short stories, thriller

1998 | horror, short stories

1996 | science fiction

1996 | science fiction, short stories

1991 | horror
(A Song Called Youth #3 / 3)
1990 | science fiction

1989 | science fiction, short stories
(A Song Called Youth #2 / 3)
1988 | science fiction

1988 | horror

1988 | science fiction

1988 | science fiction
(A Song Called Youth #1 / 3)
1985 | science fiction

1982 | horror

1980 | science fiction

1980 | science fiction

1979 | horror

1979 | science fiction

Others non-spefi books (3)


2002 | thriller

1993 | short stories, thriller

1981 | thriller