Brace Yourself For Cancer-Horror And The Lost Cyberpunk Novel

cyber-terrorist guru John Shirley could be breed three flick presently : the Weinstein Company is doing a moving picture of his fresh Demons , in which corporations deliberately cause malignant neoplastic disease as part of a program of human sacrifice , with Jim Sonzero ( Pulse ) attached to direct . “ Wish I write the script , but some “ A ” scripter get the task , ” Shirley tells io9 . Plus his forthcoming novel Bleak History , an urban fantasy go under in a near - future tense New York , has been optioned by New Regency Productions ( Mr. And Mrs. Smith ) . And his adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe ’s story Ligeia is in post - production . If that was n’t enough , he has three fresh Book in the works , admit the “ lost cyber-terrorist novel . ”

That lose cyber-terrorist novel would be Black Glass , coming out in August from ESP Books . say Shirley :

Black Glass , which will be published in its first , hardcover version , this summertime , by Elder Signs Press , was conceived under a unlike name and as a different kind of projection , in the early days of cyberpunk , by myself and William Gibson , the generator of Neuromancer and Spook Country and all his book in between . We had collaborated on a dyad of labor before this one . I do n’t remember who amount up with the primary idea or the general news report of Black Glass . I sleep together I wrote up an detailed tale base on our discussion ; I ’m the one who fleshed it out and Bill approve it . But then the project got derailed , we both got diverted , and Bill was cross off to garner awards , depend his royalties , chill with rock ace , and work on other task . after , long later on , I call up the book and inquired ; Bill is a busy guy and turned the whole affair over to me .

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So some years later I have write the novel , which I think of as the Lost Cyberpunk Novel ; I have written it in its entirety . No one else should be held to blame .

you’re able to read some excerptshere . Also , he ’s work on a newfangled collection , In Extremis , The Most Extreme Short Stories of John Shirley . ( Presumably this will be weird than his collection Really , Really , Really , Really Weird Stories . ) And then there ’s the aforementioned Bleak History , come late this year from Simon and Schuster .

simulacrum from cover ofDark Wisdom#8 , boast Shirley ’s written material .

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