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John Shirley


Born
in Houston, Texas, The United States
February 10, 1953

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Genre
Literature & Fiction,Science Fiction & Fantasy,Horror


John Shirley won the Bram Stoker Award for his story collection Black Butterflies, and is the author of numerous novels, including the best-seller DEMONS, the cyberpunk classics CITY COME A-WALKIN', ECLIPSE, and BLACK GLASS, and his newest novels STORMLAND and A SORCERER OF ATLANTIS.

He is also a screenwriter, having written for television and movies; he was co-screenwriter of THE CROW. He has been several Year's Best anthologies including Prime Books' THE YEAR'S BEST DARK FANTASY AND HORROR anthology, and his nwest story collection is IN EXTREMIS: THE MOST EXTREME SHORT STORIES OF JOHN SHIRLEY. His novel BIOSHOCK: RAPTURE telling the story of the creation and undoing of Rapture, from the hit videogame BIOSHOCK is out from TOR books; his Hal ...more

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Why we SHOULD pay REPARATIONS to Black Americans

Even after the Emancipation Proclamation, even after the Civil War, even after Civil Rights laws…

Racists enslave, undermine Reconstruction, create Jim Crow conditions; racists resist integration, good schools, good jobs for Blacks for 170 years. Racist suppression creates slum conditions with poor education, emotional misery, broken homes, crime, gangs. Racists: “See, that’s how Blacks are.”

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Batman: Dead White
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City Come a-Walkin'
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Wetbones
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Demons
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Black Butterflies
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“No Gods Or Kings. Only Man. -Andrew Ryan”
― John Shirley, BioShock: Rapture
tags: objectivism, philosophy, religion, science
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“If the modern world were a patient in my care... I would diagnose it suicidal." - Dr. Sofia Lamb”
― John Shirley, BioShock: Rapture
tags: bioshock, game, rapture, shirley
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“A man must make of his life a ladder that he never ceases to climb -- if you're not rising, you are slipping down the rungs, my friend.”
― John Shirley, BioShock: Rapture
tags: andrew-ryan, bioshock, prosperity
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