John Shirley
John Shirley
John Shirleyis an American writer, primarily of fantasy and science fiction and songwriting. He has also written one historical novel, a western, about Wyatt Earp, Wyatt in Wichita, and one non-fiction book, Gurdjieff: An Introduction to His Life and Ideas. Shirley has written novels, short stories, TV scripts and screenplays, and has published over 40 books and 8 short-story collections. As a musician, Shirley has fronted his own bands and written lyrics for Blue Öyster Cult and others...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth10 February 1953
CountryUnited States of America
I call attention to the dark side maybe a little bit for mutual catharsis but also to try to paint the universe as it is - both sides of it.
I think paranoia can be instructive in the right doses. Paranoia is a skill.
I am more conservative now, in some ways - but I'm not a conservative. I'm just in favor of order (intelligent and tolerant order though) over chaos now. I think this is wisdom and not decay.
Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them.
I do sometimes watch 'Dr. Who' and while the stories barely make sense, if at all, the doctor is such great company I don't care.
I'm just the kind of person who seems designed, probably by nature, to try to make a difference.
As far as I know Misha wrote the first cyberpunk poetry.
Misha's importance and distinctiveness are beginning to be noticed, there's beginning to be some kind of rip-tide here that will soon become a wave of recognition for a book that the world is beginning to catch up to... We weren't ready before. We'd better be ready now. Because it's the 21st century, any minute now, and that means that Misha's time has come. In more ways than one.
Innocence could be considered a discrete state of mind.