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SHIRLEY, JOHN (Patrick) (1953- ); see pseudonym Gustav Flurbert; (about) (chron.)
- * Aftertaste, (nv) Bones of the Children Fll 1996
- * An Alien in L.A., (cl) Science Fiction Review #56 1985
- * An Alien in L.A., (cl) Stardate Mar/Apr 1986
- * All Hangy (with Rudy Rucker), (ss) Flurb Spr/Sum 2009
- * ...And the Angel with Television Eyes, (ss) Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine May 1983
- * Animus Rights, (ss) Asimov’s Science Fiction Dec 2009
- * Any Damn Thing I Please, (cl) Wetbones Spr, Fll 1997
- * The Beast— Screening the Monster That Is Hollywood, (ar) Journal Wired Win 1989
- * Beyond Cyberpunk: The New Science Fiction Underground, (ar) Science Fiction Eye #5 1989
- * Bitters, (ss) Flurb Fll/Win 2010
- * Black Glass Samples, (ss) Flurb Spr/Sum 2008
- * Buried in the Sky, (nv) Weird Tales Oct/Nov 2006
- * Burning Questions, (ms) Albedo One #43 2013
- * Calaphais and the Demon Malchance, (ss) Dark Wisdom #11 2007
- * The Claw Spurs, (ss) Horror Garage #3 2001
- * The Cold Fog of Regret, (pm) Spectral Realms Sum 2016
- * Cory for Coriolis, (nv) Analog Jul/Aug 2016
- * Cram, (ss) Wetbones Fll 1997
- * Cul-de-Sac, (ss) Flurb Win 2006/’07
- * Cyberpunk Forum/Symposium, (ar) Mississippi Review #47/48 1988
- * The Doom of Parentheses, (pm) Star*Line Jan/Feb 1981
- * The Egregious Error of Werner Witherbye, (pm) Spectral Realms Sum 2016
- * Everything Is Broken, (ss) Flurb Fll/Win 2011
- * Faces in Walls, (ss) Black Static #17 2010
- * The Fiddlers Unseen, (pm) The Weird Fiction Review Fll 2016
- * A Final Paranoid Critical Statement, (ar) Thrust Fll 1980
- * Five Reasons I Wear Black, (ar) Horror Garage #2 2000
- * Flesh Flowers, (pm) Spectral Realms Sum 2018
- * The Frozen Lake, (ss) Crimewave #9 2007
- * Gotterdammergun, (ss) Horror Garage #6 2002
- * The Gun in Lingerie, (ss) Hot Talk Jan/Feb 1991
- * The Impostor, (cl) The Spook Jan 2002
- * The Incorporated, (ss) Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine Jul 1985
- * The Initiation of Larry Schor, (ss) Dark Discoveries Fll 2014
- * It’s Hell Being Your Guardian Angel, (pm) Spectral Realms Sum 2017
- * John Shirley Rebuts, (ms) Science Fiction Eye #12 1993
- * John Shirley replies, (ms) Science Fiction Eye #11 1992
- * Just Like Suzie, (ss) Cemetery Dance #9 1991
- * The Kindest Man in Stormland, (ss) Interzone Nov/Dec 2013
- * Machen Spoke the Hidden Thing, (pm) Spectral Realms Win 2016
- * Make It Scream, (cl) Thrust Sum 1987, Sum 1988, Spr 1989
- * Make It Scream:
* ___ Science Fiction Cowardice, (cl) Thrust Fll/Win 1986
* ___ Winners of the Alternative Convention Programming Contest!, (cl) Thrust Win 1988
* ___ “A Writer Meets Himself”, (cl) Thrust Win 1989
- * My Victim, (ss) Cemetery Dance #34 2001
- * Nineteen Seconds, (ss) Horror Garage #1 2000
- * Nodding Angel, (ss) The Weird Fiction Review Fll 2017
- * One Stick, Both Ends Sharpened, (ss) Horror Garage #4 2001
- * Parakeet, (nv) New Pathways Into Science Fiction and Fantasy Apr/May 1987
- * Paranoid Critical Statements, (cl) Thrust Fll 1978, Sum, Fll 1979, Win 1980
- * The Peculiar Happiness of Professor Cort, (ss) New Pathways Into Science Fiction and Fantasy Mar 1988
- * Political and Corporate Censorship in the Land of the Free, (ar) Gauntlet #3 1992
- * Preach, (vi) The Edge #4 1997
- * Provocatourist, (ss) Flurb Fll 2006
- * Quill Tripstickler Eludes a Bride [Quill Tripstickler], (ss) The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction May 1980
- * Quill Tripstickler Hits Bottim [Quill Tripstickler], (ss) Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine mid-Dec 1982
- * Quill Tripstickler Out the Window [Quill Tripstickler], (nv) The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Nov 1981
- * Raise Your Hand If You’re Dead, (ss) Dark Discoveries Sum/Fll 2010
- * Red, Green, Blink, Black (with Don Webb), (ss) The Weird Fiction Review Fll 2016
- * Reward and Punishment, Ha Ha, (nv) Iniquities Aut 1990
- * Science Fiction Cowardice, (ar) Thrust Fll/Win 1986
- * Screens, (ss) The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Apr 1989
- * Screw, (ss) Interzone May/Jun 2003
- * A Search for Light in Night; A Search for Dark in Day, (pm) Spectral Realms Win 2015
- * Secret Tree, (pm) Spectral Realms Sum 2017
- * SF Alternatives, Part One: Stelarc & the New Reality, (ar) Science Fiction Eye #2 1987
- * SF Writers: A Responsibility to the Future, (ar) New Pathways Into Science Fiction and Fantasy Sep 1989
- * SFRA Panel: Cyberpunk or Cyberjunk? Some Perspectives on Recent Trends in SF (with Gregory Benford, David Brin, Norman Spinrad & Jack Williamson, (ar) Science Fiction Eye #1 1987
- * Shadow of a Snowstorm, (ss) Amazing Stories Oct 1977
- * Shaman, (nv) Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine Nov 1988
- * Shattered Shadow, an excerpt from: Eclipse Corona, (ex) New Pathways Into Science Fiction and Fantasy May, Sep 1989
- * She’s a Legend: A Song Sung by the Unsung, (pm) Spectral Realms Sum 2018
- * Silent Crickets, (vi) Fantastic Apr 1975
- * Six Kinds of Darkness, (ss) High Times Mar 1988
- * Sleepwalkers, (ss) New Pathways Into Science Fiction and Fantasy Oct 1988
- * Slither Eyes, (vi) Forbidden Futures Fll 2018
- * The Social Future: An Evolving Essay: Part 1: Business Ethics: An Oxymoron, (ar) Science Fiction Eye #10 1992
- * The Social Future: An Evolving Essay: Part 2: Deception as Usual..., (ar) Science Fiction Eye #11 1992
- * The Social Future: An Evolving Essay: Part 3: Completely Unauthorized Possibilities, (ar) Science Fiction Eye #12 1993
- * Spider Eggs, (pm) Spectral Realms Win 2017
- * The Sudden Raving of a Quiet One, (pm) Spectral Realms Win 2018
- * Tahiti in Terms of Squares, (ss) Fantastic Oct 1978
- * Talisman, (ss) The Spook Sep 2001
- * TechnoTriptych, (ss) Dark Wisdom #8 2006
- * That Certain Day with Magdalen, (ss) Flurb Spr/Sum 2007
- * That Part of the Bran, (ss) Dark Discoveries Spr 2015
- * This Mountain of Skulls, (pm) Spectral Realms Sum 2017
- * Ticket to Heaven, (nv) The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Dec 1987
- * Tim Powers, Poet, (ar) Spectral Realms Sum 2017
- * A Tourist in Hell, (pm) The Audient Void #5 2018
- * Triggering, (ss) Omni Jan 1982
- * Two Strangers, (ss) Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine Sum 1977
- * Undermuck with Quill Tripstickler [Quill Tripstickler], (ss) Eternity Science Fiction v1 #2 1980
- * The Unfolding (with Bruce Sterling), (ss) Interzone Spr 1985
- * Violence, (ar) Science Fiction Eye #13 1994
- * Vreedeez, Hermiss and You, (ss) The Edge v2 #2 1996
- * A Walk Through Beirut, (nv) Newer York, ed. Lawrence Watt-Evans, Roc 1991
- * Weedkiller, (ss) Interzone Sep/Oct 2015
- * Welcome to Freedom, (ex) Shroud Aut 2009; Excerpt from the upcoming novel.
- * What Cindy Saw, (ss) Interzone Aut 1983
- * What He Wanted, (nv) Amazing Stories Nov 1975
- * What It’s Like to Kill a Man, (ss) Stardate Jan/Feb 1986
- * What the Madman Knows, (pm) The Audient Void #7 2019
- * When Enter Came, (ss) Yellow Silk #33 1990
- * When Rose Petals Fall, (pm) Spectral Realms Win 2015
- * Where It’s Safe, (ss) R.E.M #2 1992
- * Winners of the Alternative Convention Programming Contest!, (ar) Thrust Win 1988
- * Wolves of the Plateau, (ss) Mississippi Review #47/48 1988
- * Woodsmoke: A Folk Song That Never Was, (pm) Spectral Realms Win 2017
- * “A Writer Meets Himself”, (ar) Thrust Win 1989
- * Yo, Check It Out: Dime Bag Reviews, (rc) Science Fiction Eye #3 1988
- * You Are the Emperor!, (ss) Science Fiction Eye #3 1988
- * You Blundering Idiot, You Fucking Failed to Kill Me Again!, (ss) Swill #4 2009
- * You See Me as You See Me, (pm) The Audient Void #6 2018
- * [letter], (lt) Science Fiction Review #18 1976, #22 1977, #25, #28 1978, #31 1979, #37 1980, #40 1981, #42 1982, #47 1983, #55, #57 1985, #60 1986
- * [letter], (lt) Thrust Fll 1978, Fll 1979, Sum 1989, Win 1990
- * [letter], (lt) Empire for the SF Writer Win 1979
- * [letter], (lt) Science Fiction Eye #3, #4 1988, #7 1990
- * [response to Gregory Benford], (ms) Thrust Spr 1987
- * [response to Harlan Ellison], (ms) Thrust Sum 1979
- * [response to Harry Lawton], (ms) Thrust Fll 1987
- * [response to Joel Rosenberg], (ms) Thrust Sum 1988
_____, reviews:
- * The Artificial Kid, by Bruce Sterling, (br) Science Fiction Review #37 1980
- * The Book of the SubGenius, (br) Science Fiction Eye #3 1988
- * Dad’s Nuke, by Marc Laidlaw, (br) Science Fiction Eye #3 1988
- * Damiano, by R.A. MacAvoy, (br) Science Fiction Eye #3 1988
- * Damiano’s Lute, by R.A. MacAvoy, (br) Science Fiction Eye #3 1988
- * Dhampire, by Scott Baker, (br) Science Fiction Review #46 1983
- * Dime Bag Reviews, (br) Science Fiction Eye #5 1989
- * The Man Who Melted, by Jack M. Dann, (br) Science Fiction Review #59 1986
- * The Man Who Pulled Down the Sky, by John Barnes, (br) Science Fiction Eye #3 1988
- * Master of Space and Time, by Rudy Rucker, (br) Science Fiction Review #59 1986
- * Raphael, by R.A. MacAvoy, (br) Science Fiction Eye #3 1988
- * The Secret of Life, by Rudy Rucker, (br) Science Fiction Review #59 1986
- * The Toxic Cloud, by Michael H. Brown, (br) Science Fiction Eye #3 1988
- * Waiting for the End of the World, by Madison Smartt Bell, (br) Science Fiction Eye #3 1988
- * Wyst: Alastor 1716, by Jack Vance, (br) Science Fiction Review #31 1979
_____, [ref.]
- * “Cellars” reviewed by William Gibson, (br) Science Fiction Review #44 1982
- * “City Come A-Walkin’” reviewed by William Gibson, (br) Science Fiction Review #36 1980
- * “Doyle After Death” reviewed by Andy Hedgecock, (br) Interzone Jan/Feb 2014
- * “Doyle After Death” reviewed by Kim Newman, (br) Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine Jul/Aug 2014
- * “Dracula in Love” reviewed by Norm Hartman, (br) Science Fiction Review #5 1991
- * “Dracula in Love” reviewed by William Gibson, (br) Science Fiction Review #33 1979
- * “Eclipse” reviewed by Elton T. Elliott, (br) Science Fiction Review #58 1986
- * “Eclipse” reviewed by Lee Montgomerie, (br) Interzone Sum 1987
- * “Eclipse” reviewed by Michael Bishop, (br) Thrust Spr 1987
- * “Eclipse” reviewed by Pascal J. Thomas, (br) Thrust Spr/Sum 1986
- * “Eclipse” reviewed by Richard E. Geis, (br) Science Fiction Review #58 1986
- * “Heat Seeker” reviewed by Nancy A. Collins, (br) Thrust Spr 1989
- * “Heatseeker” reviewed by Glen Cox, (br) Nova Express Win 1988
- * “Heatseeker” reviewed by John Clute, (br) Interzone Jul/Aug 1989
- * “Interview with John Shirley” by Takayuki Tatsumi, (iv) Science Fiction Review #61 1986
- * “Interview: John Shirley” by Elton Elliott, (iv) Science Fiction Review #6 1992
- * “John Shirley” by Joey Zone, (iv) Cyber-Psychos AOD #7 1997
- * “John Shirley” by Richard Kadrey, (iv) Interzone Aut 1986
- * “John Shirley: Alien Viewpoints” by Charles de Lint, (ar) The Horror Show Spr 1989
- * “John Shirley: Cyberpunk and Just Plain Punk” by Paula Guran, (iv) Weird Tales Oct/Nov 2006
- * “John Shirley: The Tao of Identity” by Jason V. Brock, (iv) Dark Discoveries Sum/Fll 2010
- * “A Splendid Chaos” reviewed by Andrew Andrews, (br) Thrust Sum 1988
- * “A Splendid Chaos” reviewed by Glen Cox, (br) Nova Express Sum 1988
- * “Sunshine Over Shirleyland?” by David Mathew, (iv) Interzone Nov 1998
- * “Three Steps Forward, Two Steps Back...” by Andy Hedgecock, (iv) Interzone Nov/Dec 2013
- * “Three-Ring Psychus” reviewed by Richard E. Geis, (br) Science Fiction Review #38 1981
- * “Transmaniacon” reviewed by Richard E. Geis, (br) Science Fiction Review #31 1979
- * “Visionary” by John Sayers [*Star Trek], (sa) Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Magazine #12 1995
- * “Words from the Wise: John Shirley, Nick Antosca, and Geoff Brown” by Chris Kelso, (iv) Dark Discoveries Sum 2016
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