Lewis Shiner

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

Shiner began his career as a science fiction writer, identified early on with cyberpunk, and 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.

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.

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. He has written a small manifesto explaining why he did this.

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

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)
• 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

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.

Editor

• Modern Stories #1 (April, 1983): A self-published fanzine featuring original fiction by William Gibson, Howard Waldrop, and Joe R. Lansdale, among others.
• When The Music's Over (anthology featuring alternatives to war) (Nominated for the World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology)

Comics

• Time Masters (with Bob Wayne) Art by Art Thibert and Jose Marzan Jr. (DC Comics February 1990 - September 1990)
• "Scales" Art by Carlos Kastro (adaptation of the short story of the same name) in Omnibus: Modern Perversity (Blackbird Comics January 1992)
• The Hacker Files Art by Tom Sutton (DC Comics August 1992 - July 1993)
• "Steam Engine Time" Art by Doug Potter (adaptation of the short story of the same name) in Wild West Show (Mojo Press 1996)

External links

• Official Webpage
• Fiction Liberation Front (FLF)
• Lewis Shiner at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Austin Chronicle article about the Fiction Liberation Front