New Taboos: Plus...

Description

Mixing outlaw humour, sci-fi adventure and cutting social criticism, original Dread Lord' of Cyberpunk, John Shirley, draws upon his arsenal of narrative and commentary in New Taboos. The title piece is Shirley's prescription for a radical re-visioning of America. A new short story, 'State of Imprisonment', is a horrifying and hilarious look at the privatization of the prison industry. The 1% get their comeuppance in 'Where the Market's Hottest.' And Shirley's TED address (delivered in Brussels, 2011) presents a proudly contrarian view of the next forty years.'

John Shirley is one of the original "Dread Lords" of Cyberpunk who brought a new noir sensibility to SF and Fantasy in the 1990s. He is the author of numerous books and many short stories, including the novels Bleak History, Crawlers, Demons, In Darkness Waiting, and the seminal cyberpunk works City Come A-Walkin' and A Song Called Youth trilogy of Eclipse, Eclipse Penumbra, and Eclipse Corona. His collections include the Bram Stoker and International Horror Guild Award-winning Black Butterflies, Living Shadows, and In Extremis. As a musician, he has fronted his own bands and written lyrics for Blue OEyster Cult and others. He lives in San Francisco.

"Astonishingly consistent and rigorously horrifying. All his stories give off the chill of top-grade horror." --New York Times "One of our best and most singular writers. A powerhouse of ideas and imagery." --William Gibson "John Shirley achieves things that other writers wouldn't dare attempt. Brilliant. The true quill." --Bruce Sterling "Shirley writes at the neon-lit frontier of sensory experience." --Publishers Weekly "Readers who enjoy living a little dangerously are likely to appreciate the sheer, headlong exuberance of Shirley's imagination." --San Francisco Chronicle