@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.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, url = {https://www.bigecho.org/meerga}, author = {John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954)} } @booklet {9028, title = {"State of Imprisonment"}, howpublished = {New Taboos: plus {\textquotedblleft}A state of imprisonment{\textquotedblright} and {\textquotedblleft}Why we need forty years of hell{\textquotedblright} and {\textquotedblleft}Pro is for professional{\textquotedblright} outspoken interview }, year = {2013}, month = {2013}, pages = {1-61}, publisher = {PM Press}, address = {Oakland, CA}, abstract = {

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)} }