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, 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.

In July 2007 Shiner created the web site [http://www.lewisshiner.com/liberation/index.htm 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 [http://www.lewisshiner.com/liberation/manifesto.html 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. [Citation
last = Shiner
first = Lewis
title = Graphic Scenes
newspaper = The News & Observer
pages = 4G
year = 2007
date = July 22
url = http://www.newsobserver.com/print/sunday/arts/story/645382.html]

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
*"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.

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

* [http://www.lewisshiner.com/ Official Webpage]
* [http://www.lewisshiner.com/liberation/index.htm Fiction Liberation Front (FLF)]
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* [http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid%3A501944 "Austin Chronicle" article about the Fiction Liberation Front]

References