John Shirley

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John Shirley

John Patrick Shirley (* 10. February 1953 in Houston , Texas ) is an American science fiction - Author , punk musician and lyricist and screenwriter. He has lived in San Francisco for many years .

Career

Shirley is one of the earliest writers of cyberpunk . He was best known for the A Song Called Youth trilogy (published in German as Eclipse ). The novels are set in a dystopian Europe and subplots in North America as well. After the outbreak of war between the Western and Eastern blocs, large parts of Europe lay in ruins. The NATO has awarded the military control of the territory to a private organization; this organization is controlled by fascist fundamentalist Christians who want to implement their political vision in Europe. The main characters of the trilogy are adventurers who join forces with other forces such as the Mossad to form a small underground force to offer resistance. In 1999/2000 the books of the A Song Called Youth trilogy were re-published in a revised version.

Unlike other writers in the genre like Bruce Sterling or Neal Stephenson , Shirley is a much more conventional writer. He is not particularly interested in high-tech experiments, nor does he try to find new ethical principles that enable human coexistence in the ultra-modern hypercomplexity. Shirley's stories are written in the classic logic of below versus above, the struggle of the individual against the organization . The novels gain a special flair because Shirley is an active member of the punk scene and can empathize with the group experience of small, marginalized, resistant groups.

As a screenwriter he wrote the script for the film The Crow (1994) with David J. Schow .

criticism

  • Detlef Hedderich on the Eclipse trilogy: "The implications of the subject: National Socialism in alliance with the Christian fundamentalists, is certainly not a fundamentally wrong, albeit quite radical, idea. Shirley has all of this with his fluent writing and his close-up descriptions dressed in tension-laden garb, so that even those readers who have long since been believed to be weary of these problematic contexts already presented in so-called 'serious' literature get their money's worth. "

Awards

bibliography

The series are arranged according to the year of publication of the first part.

Quill Tripstickler (short story series)
  • Undermuck with Quill Tripstickler (1980)
  • Quill Tripstickler Eludes a Bride (1980)
    • English: Quill Tripstickler escapes a bride. In: heat sensor. 1991.
  • Quill Tripstickler Out the Window (1981)
  • Quill Tripstickler Hits Bottim (1982)
The Specialist (as John Cutter)
  • 1 A Talent for Revenge (1984)
  • 2 Manhattan Revenge (1984)
  • 3 Sullivan's Revenge (1984)
  • 4 The Psycho Soldiers (1984)
  • 5 The Maltese Vengeance (1984)
  • 6 The Big One (1984)
  • 7 The Vendetta (1985)
  • 8 One-Man Army (1985)
  • 9 Vengeance Mountain (1985)
  • 10 Beirut Retaliation (1985)
  • 11 American Vengeance (1985)
Traveler (as DB Drumm)
  • 1 First, You Fight (1984)
  • 2 Kingdom Come (1984)
  • 3 The Stalkers (1984)
  • 4 To Kill a Shadow (1984)
  • 5 Road War (1985)
  • 6 Border War (1985)
  • 8 Terminal Road (1986)
A Song Called Youth / Eclipse
  • 1 Eclipse (1985)
    • German: Eclipse. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 4721, 1990, ISBN 3-453-04306-5 . Also called: Eclipse: solar eclipse. Argument (Ariadne Social Fantasies # 2066), 2001, ISBN 3-88619-966-5 .
  • 2 Eclipse Penumbra (1988)
    • German: Eclipse Penumbra. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 4722, 1991, ISBN 3-453-04307-3 . Also called: Eclipse: penumbra. Argument (Ariadne Social Fantasies # 5008), 2002, ISBN 3-88619-972-X .
  • 3 Eclipse Corona (1990)
    • German: Eclipse Corona. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 4723, 1991, ISBN 3-453-04461-4 . Also called: Eclipse: Firestorm. Argument (Ariadne Social Fantasies # 5009), 2004, ISBN 3-88619-340-3 .
  • A Song Called Youth (2012, collection of 1–3)

The editions published by Heyne were translated by Peter Robert. The new editions published by Argument were translated based on the translation by Robert von Hannes Riffel (Vol. 1), Dietmar Dath (Vol. 2) and Kirsten Gleinig (Vol. 3) according to the version revised by Shirley.

John Constantine : Hellblazer (tie-ins to the comic series)
  • Constantine (2005)
  • War Lord (2006)
  • Subterranean (2006)
Borderlands (tie-ins to video game)
  • 1 The Fallen (2011)
    • German: Borderlands - Psycho-Terror. Translated by Andreas Kasprzak. Panini, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-8332-2758-5 .
  • 2 Unconquered (2012)
    • German: Borderlands - invincible. Translated by Andreas Kasprzak & Tobias Toneguzzo. Panini, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-8332-2822-3 .
  • 3 Gunsight (2013)
Novels
  • Dracula in Love (1979)
  • Transmaniacon (1979)
  • City Come A-Walkin ' (1980)
    • German: Rebellion of the City. Translated by Joachim Körber . Droemer Knaur (Knaur Science Fiction & Fantasy # 5753), 1982, ISBN 3-426-05753-0 . Also as: City starts. Translated by Hannes Riffel. Argument (Ariadne Social Fantasies # 2054), 2000, ISBN 3-88619-954-1 .
  • Three-Ring Psychus (1980)
    • German: The PSI Army. Droemer Knaur (Knaur Science Fiction & Fantasy # 5762), 1983, ISBN 3-426-05762-X .
  • The Brigade (1981)
  • Cellars (1982)
  • In Darkness Waiting (1988)
  • A Splendid Chaos (1988)
    • German: A wonderful mess. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 4684, 1990, ISBN 3-453-04267-0 .
  • The Black Hole of Carcosa (1988, Kamus of Kadizhar # 2)
  • Wetbones (1992)
  • Silicon Embrace (1996)
    • German: Let there be light. Argument (Ariadne Social Fantasies # 2046), 1999, ISBN 3-88619-946-0 .
  • ... And the Angel with Television Eyes (2001)
  • The View from Hell (2001)
  • Demons (2002)
  • Spider Moon (2002)
  • Crawlers (2003)
  • Doom (2005, novel version of the video game adaptation Doom - The Movie )
    • German: Doom: The official novel for the film. Translated by Firouzeh Akhavan-Zandjani. Panini, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8332-1217-9 .
  • Batman: Dead White (2006, tie-in to the Batman comic series )
  • Forever Midnight (2006, tie-in for the Predator film series)
  • The Other End (2007)
  • 13 Steel Egg (2007, Aliens Tie-in)
  • Black Glass: The Lost Cyberpunk Novel (2008)
  • Bleak History (2009)
  • Bioshock: Rapture (2011, tie in to the video game BioShock )
    • German: Bioshock - Rapture. Translated by Tobias Toneguzzo & Andreas Kasprzak. Panini, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-8332-2325-9 .
  • Everything Is Broken (2012)
  • Resident Evil: Retribution - The Official Movie Novelization (2012)
  • Doyle After Death (2013)
  • Grimm: The Icy Touch (2013, tie-in for the TV series Grimm )
  • Halo: Broken Circle (2014, tie-in to the Halo game series )
    • English: Halo: The Broken Circle. Translated by Andreas Kasprzak. Panini, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-8332-3009-7 .
  • Watch Dogs: Dark Clouds (2014, tie-in for the video game Watch Dogs )
Collections
  • Heatseeker (1989)
  • New Noir (1993)
  • The Exploded Heart (1996)
  • Black Butterflies: A Flock on the Dark Side (1998)
  • Really, Really, Really, Really, Weird Stories (1999)
  • Darkness Divided (2001)
  • Living Shadows: Stories: New and Preowned (2007)
  • In Extremis: The Most Extreme Short Stories of John Shirley (2011)
  • Z-Boyz in the Robot Graveyard (2012, Zombies vs. Robots # 2)
  • Lovecraft Alive! (2016)
Short stories
  • The Word "Random", Deliberately Repeated (1973)
  • Cold Feet (1974)
  • Silent Crickets (1975)
    • German: Mute crickets. In: heat sensor. 1991.
  • Uneasy Chrysalids, Our Memories (1975)
    • English: Corporally pupated moths, our memories. Translated by Sylvia Pukallus. In: Werner Fuchs (ed.): Visa for eternity. Droemer Knaur (Knaur Science Fiction & Fantasy # 5743), 1982, ISBN 3-426-05743-3 . Also as: Annoying butterfly pupae, our thoughts. Translated by Norbert Stöbe. In: heat sensor. 1991.
  • What He Wanted (1975)
  • Tricentennial (1976)
    • German: Unter dem Sternenbanner - 2076. In: HJ Alpers (Hrsg.): Kopernikus 13. Moewig Science Fiction # 3684, 1985, ISBN 3-8118-3684-6 .
  • Under the Generator (1976)
    • German: Under the generator. In: HJ Alpers (ed.): The great oil war. Moewig Science Fiction # 3531, 1981, ISBN 3-8118-3531-9 . Also as: Under the generator. In: heat sensor. 1991.
  • The Almost Empty Rooms (1977)
    • German: The almost empty rooms. In: heat sensor. 1991.
  • Two Strangers (1977)
  • Shadow of a Snowstorm (1977)
  • Tahiti in Terms of Squares (1978)
    • German: Tahiti squared. In: heat sensor. 1991.
  • Will the Chill (1979)
  • The Gunshot (1980)
    • German: The shot. In: heat sensor. 1991.
  • The Belonging Kind (1981) with William Gibson
    • German: Accessories. Cyberspace 1988-00-00 William Gibson Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 4468) 3-453-00993-2 1988.
  • Triggering (1982)
    • German: The knot. In: heat sensor. 1991.
  • What Cindy Saw (1983)
    • German: What Cindy saw. In: heat sensor. 1991.
  • ... And the Angel with Television Eyes (1983)
  • A Song Called Youth (1984)
  • Freezone (1985)
    • German: Freezone. In: Bruce Sterling (Ed.): Spiegelschatten. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 4544, 1988, ISBN 3-453-03133-4 .
  • The Unfolding (1985) with Bruce Sterling
    • German: The unfolding. In: Michael Nagula (ed.): Atomic Avenue. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 4704, 1990, ISBN 3-453-04287-5 . Also as: The appearance. In: heat sensor. 1991.
  • The Incorporated (1985)
  • Parakeet (1987)
  • Ticket to Heaven (1987)
    • German: ticket to heaven. In: heat sensor. 1991.
  • Wolves of the Plateau (1988)
    • English: Wolves of the Plateau. Translated by Peter Robert. In: Michael Nagula (ed.): Atomic Avenue. Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy # 4704, 1990, ISBN 3-453-04287-5 . Also called: Wolves of the Plateau. Translated by Norbert Stöbe. In: heat sensor. 11991.
  • Six Kinds of Darkness (1988)
    • English: Six kinds of darkness. In: heat sensor. 1991.
  • The Peculiar Happiness of Professor Cort (1988)
    • English: The strange luck of Professor Cort. In: heat sensor. 1991.
  • You Are the Emperor! (1988)
  • Sleepwalkers (1988)
    • German: sleepwalker. In: heat sensor. 1991.
  • Shaman (1988)
  • What It's Like to Kill a Man (1989)
    • German: How it feels to kill a person. 1991.
  • Equilibrium (1989)
    • German: balance. In: heat sensor. 1991.
  • I Live in Elizabeth (1989)
    • German: I live in Elizabeth. In: heat sensor. 1991.
  • Recurrent Dreams of Nuclear War Lead BT Quizen Tree Into Moral Dissolution (1989)
    • English: Recurring dreams of nuclear war throw BT Quizenbaum into mental confusion. In: heat sensor. 1991.
  • Screens (1989)
  • Shattered Shadow (excerpt from Eclipse Corona) (1989)
  • Shattered Shadow (second excerpt from Eclipse Corona) (1989)
  • 199619971998 (1990)
  • Delia and the Dinner Party (1990)
  • The Last Ride (1990)
  • When Enter Came (1990)
  • Reward and Punishment, Ha Ha (1990)
  • Jody and Annie on TV (1991)
  • Pearldoll (1991)
  • V, H, and You (1991)
  • The Prince (1991)
  • Woodgrains (1991)
  • A Walk Through Beirut (1991)
  • Just Like Suzie (1991)
  • Ash (1991)
  • "I Want to Get Married" Says World's Smallest Man! (1992)
  • Flaming Telepaths (1992)
    • German: Blazing Telepaths. In: Walter Diociaiuti (Ed.): Masters of Unreality. Eloy Edictions Amygdala, 2007, ISBN 978-3-938411-12-4 .
  • Lot Five, Building Seven, Door Twenty-Three (1992)
  • Where It's Safe (1992)
  • Skeeter Junkie (1993)
  • Sweet Armageddon (1993)
  • The Rubber Smile (1993)
  • How Deep the Taste of Love (1993)
  • Barbara (1995)
  • War and Peace (1995)
  • You Hear What Buddy and Ray Did? (1995)
  • Aft key (1996)
  • In the Cornelius Arms (1996)
  • Vreedeez, Hermiss and You (1996)
  • Epilogue (1996)
  • Fragments of an Exploded Heart (1996)
  • Abducting Aliens (1997)
  • Cram (1997)
  • What Would You Do for Love? (1997)
  • Preach (1997)
  • Answering Machine (1998)
  • Black Hole Sun, Won't You Come? (1998)
  • The Exquisitely Bleeding Heads of Doktur Palmer Vreedeez (1998)
  • The Footlite (1998)
  • Tapes 12, 14, 15, 22 and 23 (1998)
  • Ten Things to Be Grateful For (1998)
    • German: ten things we should be thankful for. In: Hardy Kettlitz (Ed.): Alien Contact, number 37. Edition Avalon, 2000.
  • Wings Burnt Black (1998)
  • Brittany? Oh: She's in Translucent Blue (1999)
  • Don't Be Afraid (1999)
  • Kindred Spirits (1999)
  • Modern Transmutations of the Alchemist (1999)
  • Morons at the Speed ​​of Light (1999)
  • Preach: Part Two: The Apocalypse of the Reverend John Shirley (1999)
  • The Sea Was Wet as Wet Could Be (1999)
  • The Sweet Caress of Mother Nature (1999)
  • To Make Children Good (1999)
  • Voices (1999)
  • What Joy! What fulfillment! (1999)
  • Occurrence at Owl Street Ridge (1999)
  • Demons (2000)
  • Mask Game (2000)
  • Nineteen Seconds (2000)
  • Sweetbite Point (2000)
  • Learn at Home! Your Career in Evil! (2000)
  • Her Hunger (2001)
  • In the Road (2001)
  • My Victim (2001)
  • One Stick, Both Ends Sharpened (2001)
  • Pockets (2001) with Rudy Rucker
  • Tighter (2001)
  • Whisperers (2001)
  • Your Servants in Hell (2001)
  • The Claw Spurs (2001)
  • Gotterdammergun (2002)
  • Connor Versus Puppet Head on Killmaster3 (2003)
  • Screw (2003)
  • Miss Singularity (2005)
  • Blind Eye (2006) with Edgar Allan Poe
  • Technotriptych (2006)
  • Provocatourist (2006)
  • Buried in the Sky (2006)
  • Cul-de-Sac (2006)
  • Calaphais and the Demon Malchance (2007)
  • That Certain Day with Magdalen (2007)
  • Isolation Point, California (2007)
  • Seven Knives (2007)
  • The Sewing Room (2007)
  • Those Who Came to Dagon (2007)
  • Cyrano and the Two Plumes (2008)
  • Black Glass Samples (2008)
  • You Blundering Idiot You Fucking Failed to Kill Me Again (2008)
  • Two Shots from Fly's Photo Gallery (2009)
  • All Hangy (2009) with Rudy Rucker
  • Welcome to Freedom (excerpt) (2009)
  • Just a Suggestion (2009)
  • Animus Rights (2009)
  • Raise Your Hand If You're Dead (2010)
  • Faces in Walls (2010)
  • Paper Angels on Fire (2010)
  • Bitters (2010)
  • Call Girl, Echoed (2011)
  • Gunboat Whores (2011)
  • Smartbomber (2011)
  • The Gun as an Aid to Poetry (2011)
  • Under the Plains of Rust (2011)
  • Soulglobe (2011)
  • Everything Is Broken (2011)
  • The Girl with Eyes in the Back of Her Head (2011)
  • Hidden Ribbon (2012)
  • When Death Wakes Me to Myself (2012)
  • Art of Dying (2012)
  • Food Chain (2012)
  • And When You Called Us We Came to You (2013)
  • Meerga (2013)
  • A State of Imprisonment (2013)
  • Where the Market's Hottest (2013)
  • The Kindest Man in Stormland (2013)
  • At Home with Azathoth (2014)
  • Pearlywhite (2014) with Marc Laidlaw [only as by Mark Laidlaw and John Shirley]
  • Loyalty (2014)
  • The Witness in Darkness (2014)
  • The Initiation of Larry Schor (2014)
  • Windows Underwater (2015)
  • Weedkiller (2015)
  • Red, Green, Blink, Black (2016) with Don Webb
  • Just Beyond the Trailer Park (2016)
  • Cory for Coriolis (2016)
  • Broken on the Wheel of Time (2016)
  • The Holy Grace of Cthulhu (2016)
  • The Rime of the Cosmic Mariner (2016)
  • Nodding Angel (2017)
  • Dreams Downstream (2017)
  • Tin Warriors (2017, tie-in for the Predator film series)
Non-fiction
  • Gurdjieff (2004)

Filmography

Scripts

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In: Wolfgang Jeschke (Ed.): The Science Fiction Year 1993 , Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich, ISBN 3-453-06202-7 , p. 733.
personal data
SURNAME Shirley, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shirley, John Patrick (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American science fiction writer, punk musician and lyricist, and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Houston