Editing John Shirley (section)

==Biography==
John Shirley was born in [[Houston]], Texas and grew up largely in the vicinity of [[Portland, Oregon]]. His earliest novels were ''Transmaniacon'' and ''Dracula in Love'' for Zebra Books, and ''City Come A-Walkin'', a proto-cyberpunk novel, for Delacorte. He also wrote the ''A Song Called Youth'' cyberpunk trilogy for Warner Books, re-released as an omnibus in 2012 by Prime Books. 2012 saw his noir-flavored novel of apocalypse, ''Everything Is Broken'' released by Prime Books. In 2013 PM Press released Shirley's'' New Taboos''. In October 2013 HarperCollins/Witness released his novel about Conan Doyle in the afterlife, '' Doyle After Death''; Skyhorse Publications brought out his historical novel about [[Wyatt Earp]], ''Wyatt in Wichita'', in August 2014. Shirley's collaboration with rock musician [[Mark Tremonti]], an adaptation of Tremonti's rock opera A DYING MACHINE, was completed in June 2018. Shirley's novel ''Stormland'' came out in 2021 from Blackstone. His novel ''Gunmetal Mountain'' came out in 2023 and in 2024 won the Spur Award from the WWA.  His novel ''Suborbital 7'' came out in 2023 from Titan. 

Besides having written numerous books Shirley was lead singer of the punk band [[Sado-Nation]], in 1978-79; he was lead singer of the post-punk funk-rock band Obsession, on Celluloid Records, while living in New York City and Paris, France, in the 1980s, and was later in the band the Panther Moderns. He is currently performing with The Screaming Geezers. Shirley has also written 23 song lyrics recorded by [[Blue Öyster Cult]].

Shirley's one nonfiction book is ''Gurdjieff: An Introduction to His Life and Ideas'' (Penguin/Tarcher). He currently lives in the Vancouver Washington area with his wife, Micky Shirley. They have three adult sons.