Lewis Shiner

Lewis Shiner (born December 30, 1950 in Eugene, Oregon) is an American writer.

Lewis Shiner
Born (1950-12-30) December 30, 1950
Eugene, Oregon, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Alma materSouthern Methodist University
OccupationWriter

Shiner began his career as a science fiction writer, and then identified with cyberpunk. He later wrote more mainstream novels, albeit often with magical realism and fantasy elements. He was formerly a resident of Texas (and a member of the Turkey City Writer's Workshop), and now lives in North Carolina.

Life and career

Shiner graduated from Southern Methodist University in 1973.[1]

Several of his novels have rock music as a theme or main focus, especially the musicians of the late 1960s; for example, Shiner's 1993 novel Glimpses considers the great never-recorded albums of The Doors, Brian Wilson, The Beatles and Jimi Hendrix. Say Goodbye: The Laurie Moss Story (1999) focuses on a fictional up-and-coming female musician and her subsequent fall back down. Slam (1990) is immersed in skate punk and anarchist culture. Perhaps because novels with music as a major theme are not generally considered mainstream genre material, his work has frequently been overlooked.

He is a contributing author to the George R. R. Martin-edited anthology Wild Cards, notably creating that universe's most powerful character, the tantric sex magic wielding pimp, Fortunato.

In July 2007 Shiner created the web site Fiction Liberation Front (FLF) as a venue for his short stories. The stories are released under the Creative Commons license and are available in HTML and PDF formats.[2]

Since 2006, Shiner has been a card-carrying member of the Industrial Workers of the World.[3]

On July 22, 2007, The News & Observer began publishing a weekly column by Shiner, titled "Graphic Scenes", about comics.[4]

Bibliography

Novels
  • Frontera. Riverdale, NY, USA: Baen, 1984 (paper). ISBN 0-671-55899-4
  • Deserted Cities of the Heart. New York, NY, USA: Doubleday, 1988. ISBN 0-385-24637-4
  • Slam. New York, NY, USA: Doubleday, 1990. ISBN 0-385-26683-9
  • Glimpses. New York, NY, USA: William Morrow & Co., 1993. ISBN 0-688-12411-9 (World Fantasy Award winner)[5]
  • Say Goodbye. New York, NY, USA: St Martin's, 1999. ISBN 0-312-24110-0
  • Black & White. Burton, MI, USA: Subterranean Press, 2008. ISBN 978-1-59606-171-2
  • Dark Tangos. Burton, MI, USA: Subterranean Press, 2011. ISBN 978-1-59606-396-9
  • Outside the Gates of Eden. Burton, MI, USA: Subterranean Press, 2019. ISBN 978-1-59606-900-8

Collections
  • Nine Hard Questions about the Nature of the Universe. Eugene, OR, USA: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991. No ISBN (Author's Choice Monthly #4)
  • The Edges of Things. Baltimore, WA, USA: Washington Science Fiction Association, 1991. ISBN 0-9621725-2-9
  • Twilight Time. Eugene, OR, USA: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991. No ISBN
  • Private Eye Action As You Like It with Joe R. Lansdale. Holyoke, MA, USA: Crossroads Press, 1998. ISBN 1-892300-02-8
  • Love in Vain. Burton, MI, USA: Subterranean Press, 2001. ISBN 1-931081-14-X
  • Shades of Gray (chapbook available with the signed, numbered limited edition of Black and White). Burton, MI, USA: Subterranean Press, 2008.
  • Love in Vain (Australian edition, includes previously uncollected novellas "Perfidia" and "Primes"). Greenwood, WA, Australia: Ticonderoga Publications, 2009. ISBN 978-0-9803531-0-5
  • Collected Stories. Burton, MI, USA: Subterranean Press, 2009. ISBN 978-1-59606-252-8
  • Widows & Orphans (chapbook available with the signed, numbered limited edition of Collected Stories). Burton, MI, USA: Subterranean Press, 2009.
  • Heroes and Villains. Burton, MI, USA: Subterranean Press, 2017. ISBN 978-1-59606-840-7

Wild Cards

Editor

Comics

References
  1. "Marshall Terry: 50 Years of Vision". Archived from the original on 2012-03-08. Retrieved 2012-06-15.
  2. "Fiction Liberation Front--Manifesto". Archived from the original on 2007-07-15. Retrieved 2007-07-12.
  3. "Industrial Worker - Issue #1742, January/February 2012 | PDF | Industrial Workers of the World | Unemployment".
  4. Shiner, Lewis (July 22, 2007). "Graphic Scenes". The News & Observer. pp. 4G.
  5. World Fantasy Convention. "Award Winners and Nominees". Archived from the original on 2010-12-01. Retrieved 4 Feb 2011.
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