Home    Awards    New Books    Coming Soon    Most Popular    Top Authors    Series    Years    
John Shirley's picture

John Shirley

(John Patrick Shirley)
USA  (1953 - )
aka
D B Drumm
Search Authors

Search Books

 
About John Shirley
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.
 
New and Forthcoming Paperbacks

Black Glass: The Lost Cyberpunk Novel
Black Glass
The Lost Cyberpunk Novel

Series
Traveler
1. First, You Fight (1984) (as by D B Drumm)
2. Kingdom Come (1984) (as by D B Drumm)
3. The Stalkers (1984) (as by D B Drumm)
4. To Kill a Shadow (1984) (as by D B Drumm)
5. Road War (1985) (as by D B Drumm)
6. Border War (1985) (as by D B Drumm)
8. Terminal Road (1986) (as by D B Drumm)
First, You FightKingdom ComeThe StalkersTo Kill a Shadow
Road WarBorder WarTerminal Road
 
Song Called Youth
1. Eclipse (1985)
2. Eclipse Penumbra (1988)
3. Eclipse Corona (1990)
EclipseEclipse PenumbraEclipse Corona
 
Series contributed to
ConstantineSubterraneanWarlord
 
Forever Midnight
 
Dead White
 
Steel Egg
 
Non fiction
Gurdjieff
 
Anthologies containing stories by John Shirley
Universe 6Universe 9Shadows 4The Second Omni Book of Science Fiction
Between Time and TerrorThe Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Third Annual CollectionDead End - City Limits: An Anthology of Urban FearHotter Blood: More Tales of Erotic Horror
Midnight GraffitiPredatorsThe Earth Strikes BackFear Itself
Dark LoveForbidden ActsPawn of ChaosCyber-Killers
100 Twisted Little Tales of TormentThe Crow: Shattered Lives and Broken DreamsEros ex MachinaTechnohorror: Tales of Terror, Suspense, and Intrigue
 
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 Novellette nominee (1999) : What Would You Do for Love?
Bram Stoker Best Collection winner (1999) : Black Butterflies: A Flock on the Dark Side


Links to other websites
John Shirley



Visitors to this page also looked at these authors
Dan Simmons
Bruce Sterling
Lucius Shepard
Robert Sheckley
Fred Saberhagen
D B Drumm
Bob Shaw
Clive Barker
Peter Straub
Scott Sigler
Mike Shepherd
Bryan Smith
Gene Wolfe
Bentley Little
Christopher Stasheff



Search for    

© 2008 FantasticFiction     Last Updated:
Questions? Comments? Corrections? Please email webmaster@fantasticfiction.co.uk