Lewis Shiner
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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, and the great never-recorded albums of The Doors, Brian Wilson, The Beatles and Jimi Hendrix in Shiner's 1993 novel Glimpses. 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, and is a rocket ride tale of a guy that just cannot win. Perhaps because novels with music as a major theme are not generally considered mainstream genre material, his work has frequently been overlooked. Shiner is currently (Spring 2007) working on a new novel.
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[edit] Novels
- Frontera (Baen, 1984)
- Deserted Cities of the Heart (Doubleday, 1988)
- Slam (Doubleday, 1990)
- Glimpses: A Novel (Morrow, 1993) (Winner of the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel)
- Say Goodbye (St. Martin's, 1999)
[edit] Collections
- Nine Hard Questions About the Nature of the Universe (Pulphouse, January 1990)
- The Edges of Things (WSFA Press, June 1991)
- Private Eye Action As You Like It (with Joe R. Lansdale) (Crossroads Press, July 1998)
- Love In Vain (Subterranean Press, October 2001)
- Love In Vain (reprinted Subterranean Press collection with two additional stories) (Ticonderoga Publications, November 2007)
[edit] Anthology (as editor)
- When The Music's Over (anthology featuring alternatives to war)
[edit] Comics
- Time Masters (with Bob Wayne) (DC Comics February 1990 - September 1990)
- The Hacker Files (DC Comics August 1992 - July 1993)
