@booklet {8328, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Kindest Man in Stormland{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Interzone}, volume = {no. 249 }, year = {2013}, month = {November-December 2013}, pages = {46-58}, abstract = {
Dystopia of environmental collapse.
}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954)} } @booklet {10681, title = {"Meerga"}, howpublished = {New World eZine $\#$2 [This version is no longer available online]}, year = {2013}, note = {Rpt. in Altered States: A Cyberpunk Sci-Fi Anthology. Ed. Roy C. Booth and Jorge Salgado-Reyes (Np: Indie Authors Press, 2014), 82-90; and in Big Echo, no. 14 (January 2020). https://www.bigecho.org/meerga.\
}, month = {2013}, abstract = {The story is set in a surveillance dystopia with automated controls on any movement outside houses. In this setting, where most people stay home, an AI is created as what is called a \“mere girl,\” but is designed to look like a very beautiful, fully developed woman, and the story is concerned with how the family she lives with, and particularly the father and son, deal with the situation.
Dystopia in which the entire U.S. state of Arizona has become a prison under the control of the state government and a corporation.
}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954)} } @booklet {9026, title = {Everything Is Broken}, year = {2012}, month = {2012}, publisher = {Prime Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {The novel is mostly about the effects of a tsunami on the people of the West Coast of California, but one focus is a small town called Freedom that has cut itself off from all contact with governmental authorities, which was supposed to be eutopian but seems rather dystopian when faced with a disaster.
}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954)} } @booklet {9027, title = {"Hidden Ribbon"}, howpublished = {Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire}, year = {2012}, month = {2012}, pages = {5-28}, publisher = {London/Philadelphia, PA}, address = {Robinson/RP Teens}, abstract = {The setting for the story is a dystopia\ in which the poor live at the top of buildings with constant violence and the rich live in enclosed domes in the hills.
}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954)}, editor = {Paula Guran} } @booklet {9025, title = {Bioshock: Rapture}, year = {2011}, note = {U.S. ed. New York: Tor, 2011.
}, month = {2011}, publisher = {Titan Books}, address = {London}, abstract = {The aftermath of World War 2 has produced a dystopian world where the creative person is neither honored nor rewarded. In response a man creates an underwater utopia where such people will be free and rewarded. Based on the Bioshock video games.
}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954)} } @booklet {6152, title = {Black Glass}, year = {2008}, month = {2008}, publisher = {Elder Signs Press}, address = {Lake Orion, MI}, abstract = {Cyberpunk dystopia constructed as a mystery novel.
}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954)} } @booklet {4758, title = {Silicon Embrace}, year = {1996}, month = {1996}, publisher = {Mark V. Ziesing Books}, address = {Shingletown, CA}, abstract = {Various dystopias in a post-catastrophe future in which the United States has broken up into warring factions.
}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954)} } @booklet {4576, title = {"Where It{\textquoteright}s Safe"}, howpublished = {The Earth Strikes Back: New Tales of Ecological Horror}, year = {1994}, note = {Rpt. with the subtitle only on the cover (Clarkson, GA: White Wolf Publishing, [1994]), 188-215; and in Shirley\’s The Exploded Heart (Asheville, NC: Eyeball Books, 1996), 239-59, with an author\’s note on 239.\
}, month = {1994}, pages = {125-40}, publisher = {Mark V. Ziesing Books}, address = {Shingleton, CA}, abstract = {Dystopia of environmental collapse brought about by personal and corporate greed.
}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954)}, editor = {Richard T. Chizmar} } @booklet {4268, title = {"The Prince"}, howpublished = {When the Music{\textquoteright}s Over: A Benefit Anthology}, year = {1991}, note = {Rpt. in his\ The Exploded Heart\ (Asheville, NC: Eyeball Books, 1996), 197-223, with an author\&$\#$39;s note on 197.
}, month = {1991}, pages = {75-102, with a brief editor{\textquoteright}s note on 74}, publisher = {Bantam Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {Dystopia of corporate greed, environmental collapse and violence.
}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954)}, editor = {Lewis [Gordon] Shiner (b. 1950)} } @booklet {8870, title = {"A Walk Through Beirut"}, howpublished = {Newer York: Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy About the World{\textquoteright}s Greatest City}, year = {1991}, month = {1991}, pages = {241-64}, publisher = {Roc Books}, address = {New York}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, isbn = {9780451450456}, author = {John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954)}, editor = {Lawrence Watt-Evans (b. 1954)} } @booklet {4094, title = {"Six Kinds of Darkness."}, howpublished = {Semiotext[e] SF}, year = {1989}, month = {1989}, pages = {61-68}, publisher = {Autonomedia}, address = {Brooklyn, NY}, abstract = {Violent dystopia.
}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954)}, editor = {Rudy [Rudolf von Bitter] Rucker (b. 1946) and Peter Lamborn Wilson and Robert Anton Wilson (1932-2007)} } @booklet {3629, title = {Eclipse}, year = {1985}, note = {U.K. ed. London: Methuen, 1986. Rev. \& updated ed. Northridge, CA: Babbage Press, 1999. Part published as \"Freezone.\" in\ Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology. Ed. [Michael] Bruce Sterling (New York: Arbor House, 1986), 138-77; and in\ The Ultimate Cyberpunk. Ed. Pat Cadigan (New York: ibooks, 2002), 200-48.\
}, month = {1985}, publisher = {Bluejay}, address = {New York}, abstract = {Neo-fascist dystopia and the revolt against it. Sequels are\ Eclipse Penumbra. A Song Called Youth\—Book Two. New York: Popular Library. Rev. ed. Northridge, CA: Babbage Press, 2000; and\ Eclipse Corona. A Song Called Youth--Book Three. New York: Popular Library, 1990. Rev. and updated ed. Northridge, CA: Babbage Press, 2000.
}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954)} } @booklet {3680, title = {"The Incorporated"}, howpublished = {Isaac Asimov{\textquoteright}s Science Fiction Magazine }, volume = {9.7 }, year = {1985}, note = {Rpt. in\ Future Crime: An Anthology of the Shape of Crime to Come. Ed. Cynthia Manson and Charles Ardai (New York: Donald I. Fine, 1992), 11-26; and in his\ The Exploded Heart\ (Asheville, NC: Eyeball Books, 1996), 155-76, with an author\&$\#$39;s note on 155.
}, month = {July 1985}, pages = {109-23}, abstract = {Corporate dystopia.
}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, issn = {1065-6298 }, author = {John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954)} } @booklet {3254, title = {City Come A-Walkin{\textquoteright}}, year = {1980}, note = {Rpt. Eyeball Books, 1996; and New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2000, with a \"Foreword\" by William Gibson (1-4) saying how much his\ Neuromancer\ (1984) was influenced by it.
}, month = {1980}, publisher = {Dell}, address = {New York}, abstract = {Dystopian San Francisco embodied in one man who tries to understand all of himself. In San Francisco government has been displaced by banks, the mob, and the right wing.
}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954)} } @booklet {3118, title = {Transmaniacon}, year = {1979}, month = {1979}, publisher = {Zebra Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {Dystopia set in the 22nd century. The continental U.S. is cut off from the rest of the world by an apparently impenetrable barrier. Inside the barrier there are a number of authoritarian city-states. The novel follows one man\&$\#$39;s successful attempt to escape.
}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954)} } @booklet {2980, title = {"Shadow of a Snowstorm"}, howpublished = {Amazing Science Fiction Stories}, volume = { 51.1 }, year = {1977}, note = {Rpt. in his\ The Exploded Heart\ (Asheville, NC: Eyeball Books, 1996), 66-90, with an author\&$\#$39;s note on 65-66.
}, month = {October 1977}, pages = {72-88}, abstract = {Dystopia in which there are so few jobs that humans replace mannequins in department stores.
}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, issn = {1060-541X }, author = {John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954)} } @booklet {2913, title = {"Tricentennial"}, howpublished = {The Exploded Heart}, year = {1976}, note = {Originally published in the\ Portland Scribe.
}, month = {1976/1996}, pages = {54-63, with an author{\textquoteright}s note on 53-54}, publisher = {Eyeball Books}, address = {Asheville, NC}, abstract = {Extremely violent, poverty stricken, overpopulated urban dystopia.
}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954)} }