John Shirley is one of the original cyberpunk writers. He is the
author of numerous novels, including Demons, Crawlers, Wetbones,
Cellars, Bleak History, City Come A-Walkin', Bioshock: Rapture, and
the Song Called Youth trilogy. His story collections include the
Bram Stoker Award-winning Black Butterflies. He is coscreenwriter
of The Crow, has written an episode of the Star Trek: Deep Space
Nine television series, as well as animation scripts.
Keith Szarabajka has appeared in many films, including The Dark
Knight, Missing, and A Perfect World, and on such television shows
as The Equalizer, Angel, Cold Case, Golden Years, and Profit.
Szarabajka has also appeared in several episodes of Selected Shorts
for National Public Radio. He won the 2001 Audie Award for
Unabridged Fiction for his reading of Tom Robbins's Fierce Invalids
Home from Hot Climates and has won several Earphones Awards.
Stormland is a headlong sci-fi thriller about the punk squalor of
post-disaster situations. It's also got some remarkably interesting
speculative technologies, so I'd say that Mr. Shirley is quite on
top of his game with this one.-- "Bruce Sterling, editor of
Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology"
A powerful and necessary story for these times.-- "Richard Kadrey,
author of the Sandman Slim series"
A tightly paced, well thought-out cyberpunk thriller that entices
after the very first chapter...Spare, no-nonsense prose like that
of Edgar Rice Burroughs or Karl Edward Wagner, but with a cyberpunk
twist that's all [Shirley's] own. It's a sort of cyberpunk noir
mixed with a biting commentary on mankind's greed. Stormland is a
big, sprawling read with plenty for just about everyone, a fun way
to pass the time if stuck at home or on a bus.-- "New York Journal
of Books"
John Shirley's acerbic humor is a perfect match for his sense of
doom and adventure. One of his best. Buckle in!-- "Greg Bear,
author of Blood Music and The Unfinished Land"
One of our best and most singular writers. A powerhouse of ideas
and imagery.-- "William Gibson, author of Agency and
Neuromancer"
Set in a nightmarish future where extreme weather perpetually
batters the coast, Stormland portrays human tenacity and ingenuity
within a Hobbesian universe. John Shirley has created a vivid,
hurricane-soaked canvas and a cast of memorable characters, none
more so than a reluctant detective and a reformed serial killer who
work in tandem to solve a series of perplexing crimes. A feat of
dystopian imagination, Stormland cements Shirley's voice in the
upper echelon of the cyberpunk genre.-- "Jon Bassoff, author of
Captain Clive's Dreamworld"
Snapping, snarling, vigorously wrought drama.-- "Kirkus
Reviews"
This swampadelic adventure transmogrifies such real-time disasters
as Katrina-flooded New Orleans into the stuff of speculative
nightmares.-- "Paul Di Filippo, Locus"
With this gripping dystopian novel, Shirley extrapolates a grim
vision of a late-twenty-first-century US wracked by climate
change...Howling super-hurricanes, grisly torture scenes, and the
horrors of scientific experimentation on human brains make for
harrowing reading. This is a sober warning about the seductive
dangers of power.-- "Publishers Weekly"
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