Excerpts from Reviews/Quotes Complete Reviews for: Demons Really Really Really Really Weird Stories Black Butterflies (index) Wetbones (index) Silicon Embrace The Exploded Heart John Shirley and the Death and Rebirth of Cyberpunk: Silicon Embrace, Exploded Heart & City Come A-Walkin' One of our best and most singular writers. A powerhouse of ideas and imagery. -- William Gibson John Shirley achieves things that other writers wouldn't dare attempt. Brilliant. The true quill. -- Bruce Sterling Shirley writes at the neon-lit frontier of sensory experience.-- Publisher's Weekly Snapping, snarling, vigorously wrought drama -- Shirley writes splendid stuff. -- Kirkus Reviews John Shirley is an adventurer, returning from dark and troubled regions with visionary tales to tell. Wetbones is a wild and giddy ride, confronting the reader with marvels and horror in equal measure. I heartily recommend a journey with John Shirley at your side.-- Clive Barker A postmodern Edgar Allan Poe. -- Larry McCaffrey John Shirley is the possessor of an imagination like a ticker tape machine from Gehenna. He seems able to write in any genre...Strongly recommended.-- American Book Review In Wetbones John Shirley serves up the bloody heart of a sick and rotting society with the aplomb of an Aztec surgeon on dexadrine... --ALA Booklist Borgés as directed by Scorsese. -- Covert Culture Potent, bizarre, full of raw energy...It's a good thing John Shirley is a writer. If he wasn't, he'd probably have to become a particularly inventive serial murderer to grab our attention the way he does...Four Stars! -- Inside Books Readers who enjoy living a little dangerously are likely to appreciate the sheer, headlong exuberance of Shirley's imagination. Wetbones is nightmarish pleasure. -- San Francisco Chronicle Shirley reads like a high octane mixture of Ballard, William S. Burroughs, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and William Kotzwinkle, yet emerges with a cranked-up paranoic style that is definitely his own.-- Nancy A. Collins Everybody's favorite genre outlaw. -- Interzone Magazine [Wetbones] has a cast of characters and a set of interesting plotlines that would do credit to any bestseller. Shirley's tapestry is tightly knotted and leaps to livid, vivid life from the first scene... The author does a bravura job of peeling away the plot like the layers of an onion. Utterly convincing and terrifically fascinating...Wetbones is a knock-down, kick-ass piece of writing. -- Ed Bryant, Locus Vivid, dense, powerful imagery... hard to put down! -- The Washington Post John Shirley's prophet-in-the-cyberwilderness voice deserves high billing among the best. -- Roger Zelazny Shirley is a literary juggernaut, full of humor and relentless energy. -- Lewis Shiner John's voice is unique and recognizable, capable of fine range and depth. His work is visual, energetic and spirited -- Pat Cadigan One of today's most incandescent talents. -- Terry Bisson John Shirley's writing reminds me of Philip K. Dick at his wildest -- a cross between Kafka and Chekov. Highly recommended. -- 2 AM Magazine