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John Shirley

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No Gods Or Kings. Only Man. -Andrew Ryan


— John Shirley


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Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them.


— John Shirley


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I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from it.


— John Shirley


#carried #drink #drunk #get #i

I'm cursed with empathy. I'm also by nature way too opinionated.


— John Shirley


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I think paranoia can be instructive in the right doses. Paranoia is a skill.


— John Shirley


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I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images.


— John Shirley


#culture #i #images #into #people

Innocence could be considered a discrete state of mind.


— John Shirley


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I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic.


— John Shirley


#didactic #heavy #i #incapable #integrated






About John Shirley






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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 videogame story. Gibson acknowledged Shirley's influence in an introduction to Shirley's City Come A-Walkin. In 2000 Shirley recorded several tracks with Tony and Paul DeStefano of Too Hip For The Room and also appears on their Blue Öyster Cult tribute album Don't Fear The Remake.

Shirley is a prolific writer of novels and short stories TV scripts and screenplays who has publiJohn Shirleyd over 30 books and 10 collections. His collections include the Bram Stoker and International Horror Guild award-winning Black Butterflies Living Shadows: Stories: New & Pre-Owned and In Extremis: The Most Extreme Stories of John Shirley. John Shirley (born 10 February 1953) is an American fantasist author of noir fiction and science-fiction writer.

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