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John Shirley Biography

John Shirley is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on February 10, 1953 in Houston, Texas, United States. John Shirley (born February 10 1953) is an American writer who writes mainly about science fiction, fantasy dark street-fantasy, and songwriting. Shirley has also written one historical novel and a western about Wyatt Earp, Wyatt in Wichita and a non-fiction work, Gurdjieff A Short Introduction to his Thoughts and Life. Shirley has written novels, short stories, TV scripts and screenplays–including The Crow and has published over 40 books and 8 short-story collections. As performer, Shirley has fronted his own band and composed the lyrics of Blue Oyster Cult and others. A vast collection of songs written by Shirley, Broken Mirror Glass was released by Black October Records. The latest album he has released includes Spaceship Landing in a Cemetery which was a partnership with rock star Jerry King, aided by numerous musicians. He has written on religion and spirituality for Parabola Magazine and Quest Magazine.

The authors David Agranoff and Nancy Collins as well as editor and critic Paula Guran cite his intense and expressive early horror stories including Dracula In Love and Cellars as an influence on the splatterpunk movement within horror and later the “bizarro” movement. The appreciation of John Shirley as an author of dark fiction was heightened by an article in January 2008 The New York Times review written by critic Terrence Rafferty of Shirley’s collection of stories Living Shadows that stated in the following paragraph:

Shirley was born in Houston, Texas and grew up largely in the vicinity of Portland, Oregon. His earliest novels were Transmaniacon and Dracula in Love for Zebra Books, and City Come A-Walkin, a proto-cyberpunk novel, for Delacorte. He also wrote the A Song Called Youth cyberpunk trilogy for Warner Books, re-released as an omnibus in 2012 by Prime Books. 2012 saw his noir-flavored novel of apocalypse, Everything Is Broken released by Prime Books. In 2013 PM Press released Shirley’s New Taboos. In October 2013 HarperCollins/Witness released his novel about Conan Doyle in the afterlife, Doyle After Death; Skyhorse Publications brought out his historical novel about Wyatt Earp, Wyatt in Wichita, in August 2014. Shirley’s collaboration with rock musician Mark Tremonti, an adaptation of Tremonti’s rock opera A DYING MACHINE, was completed in June 2018.

Also in 2013, Shirley teamed with Ubisoft to release a companion novel to release alongside the game Watch Dogs, entitled Watch Dogs: Dark Clouds. One version of the ebook will be a standard digital book, but the other will be a totally upgraded interactive story with videos and images.

As of 2000, Shirley made several recordings together with Tony along with Paul DeStefano of Too Hip for the Room The track is also featured in their Blue Oyster Cult tribute album Don’t Fear The Remake. Two CD compilations of selected tracks by John Shirley and his collaborators was released via label Black October Records. European Label Black October Records in December 2012. The album’s title is Broken Mirror Glass. Recordings span several periods of music, starting in 1979 until 2012.

Ethnicity, religion & political views

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2014 saw the release of Shirley’s first historical novel, Wyatt in Wichita, a novel of the young Wyatt Earp.

John Shirley Net Worth

John Shirley is one of the richest Novelist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, John Shirley's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Shirley wrote the majority of the lyrics for the Blue Oyster Cult albums Heaven Forbid and Curse of the Hidden Mirror as well as tracks “Demon’s Kiss” and “The Horsemen Arrive” from their soundtrack Bad Channels. The band’s 1972 hit song “Transmaniacon MC” was the basis for Shirley’s debut story, Transmaniacon.

Apart from writing numerous books Shirley was also the lead singer in the punk group Sado-Nation in 1978 and also the post-punk funk-rock group Obsession recorded who released their music on Celluloid Records, while living in New York City and Paris, France, in the 1980s. She was also in the group known as the Panther Moderns. Shirley also wrote 18 song lyrics that were recorded in the band Blue Oyster Cult. The only non-fiction book he has written is called Gurdjieff: An Introduction to His Ideas and Life (Penguin/Tarcher). He lives within San Francisco Bay in the San Francisco Bay area with his wife, Micky Shirley. Shirley has three grown sons twins Byron and Perry and their younger brother Julian. Byron is a captain of a yacht and yacht broker. Perry is an educator, journalist and performer. Julian is an underground rapper from the Bay Area who produces hip-hop chiptune, trap and other electronic music genres and a security expert for computers.

In recent years Shirley has written “tie-in novels” and novelizations, such as Constantine, based on the Keanu Reaves movie, and the best-seller BioShock: Rapture,(Tor, 2011), a novel providing a prequel to the BioShock video game story and Halo: Broken Circle. He also wrote the apocalyptic, politically charged novel, The Other End which, according to the author’s website, takes the apocalypse away from the Christian Right and gives Judgment Day to Liberals to do with as they please. This reflects Shirley’s tendency to create fantasy entertainment which is also political satire, or spiritual allegory. E.g., Demons, in which it is discovered that industry has deliberately caused deaths by cancer as part of a vast secret program of human sacrifice. 2007 saw the release of a new story collection, Living Shadows, from Prime Books. His novel of dark urban fantasy set in a slightly futuristic New York, Bleak History, was published by Simon & Schuster/Pocket Books in 2009. In August 2011 Underland Press published In Extremis: The Most Extreme Stories of John Shirley and in January 2012 Prime Books published his near future apocalyptic political allegory, the novel Everything Is Broken. His novel about Arthur Conan Doyle in the afterlife, Doyle After Death, was released by HarperCollins/Witness in October 2013. Shirley’s apocalyptic and surreal novel High, based on his early novel Three-Ring Psychus, has been re-released by Start Books as an e-book.

William Gibson, the author of Neuromancer, collaborated with Shirley on short stories—as did fellow cyberpunks Bruce Sterling and Rudy Rucker. Shirley’s lyricism, wealth of ideas and imagination, crossover pioneering, and street-level honesty have been praised by other writers including Clive Barker, Peter Straub, Roger Zelazny, Marc Laidlaw, and A. A. Attanasio. His more surreal work, as in A Splendid Chaos, showed how it was possible to describe the indescribable with a paradoxical believability and impeccable internal logic no matter how bizarre the subject matter. Shirley’s personal experiences as a recovering drug addict and punk rocker brought verisimilitude to his darker, urban-tinctured writing.

Shirley is known for his cyberpunk science fiction novels, such as the A Song Called Youth trilogy, City Come A-Walkin’ and Black Glass, as well as his suspense (as in his novels Spider Moon and The Brigade), horror novels and stories (e.g., Demons and Crawlers and the story collection Black Butterflies) and horror film work. The A Song Called Youth cyberpunk trilogy, Eclipse, Eclipse Penumbra, and Eclipse Corona, has been slated for a new edition by Dover Books in 2017. His tie-in novels include the best-seller Bioshock: Rapture. His best known script work is the film The Crow, for which he was the initial writer, before David Schow reworked the script. He also wrote scripts for Deep Space Nine and Poltergeist: The Legacy. He was nominated for an Emmy in the Prime Time Animation category for an episode of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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In 2013 Black October Records released a two-CD compilation of Shirley’s own recordings, Broken Mirror Glass: The John Shirley Anthology – 1978–2012 …

Who is John Shirley Dating?

According to our records, John Shirley married to Michelina Shirley . As of December 1, 2023, John Shirley’s is not dating anyone.

It’s a greatest-hits album spanning a few decades of astonishingly consistent and rigorously horrifying work. . . Shirley’s great subject is the terrible ease with which we modern Americans have learned to look away from pain and suffering. The opening line of his novel “Demons” states the theme succinctly: “It’s amazing what you can get used to.” . . .Maybe the best story in this superb collection is a rapt little piece called “Skeeter Junkie,” in which a young heroin addict first begins to enjoy the feeling of the mosquito feeding on his arm, then starts to identify with it and then, as the drugs ooze through his veins, somehow becomes it and finally uses the “exquisite” flying bloodsucker to transport him to the apartment of his comely but standoffish downstairs neighbor. It’s a horror story, I guess, but it’s also funny, weirdly erotic and, in a way that horror almost never is, tragic.

Facts & Trivia

John Ranked on the list of most popular Novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. John Shirley celebrates birthday on February 10 of every year.

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