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John Shirley's Reviews

Reviews of John’s Work

Jul.01.2009
Published by Locus Magazine
John Shirley's Black Glass is billed as "The Lost Cyberpunk Novel." It was begun "in the early days of cyberpunk" as a collaboration between Shirley and William Gibson, but both...
Bleak History, a novel by John Shirley, new from Simon and Schuster
Jul.25.2009
Published by Library Journal
“John Shirley has a gift for storytelling that emphasizes both depth of character and immediacy of vision. VERDICT: This gritty and fast-moving horror urban fantasy will appeal...
Black Butterflies: A Flock on the Dark Side
Jun.29.1998
Published by http://www.darkecho.com/JohnShirley/bb_pw.html
Best known as one of the founders of cyberpunk for his novel City Come A-Walkin' (1980) and as principal screenwriter of the cult classic film, The Crow, Shirley (Silicon Embrace...
Living Shadows: Stories, New and Pre-owned by John Shirley
Jan.27.2008
Published by New York Times Review of Books
LIVING SHADOWS (Prime, paper, $14.95), is subtitled “Stories: New and Preowned” because much of it has been previously published: some stories in earlier, out-of-print Shirley...
Living Shadows: Stories, New and Pre-owned by John Shirley
Jan.27.2008
Published by New York Times Review of Books
LIVING SHADOWS (Prime, paper, $14.95), is subtitled “Stories: New and Preowned” because much of it has been previously published: some stories in earlier, out-of-print Shirley...
Published by The New York Times
It’s a greatest-hits album spanning a few decades of astonishingly consistent and rigorously horrifying work. In his foreword, Shirley insists that he doesn’t write genre fiction...