I will note that I didn't claim Shirley for the Splats, just
that he could be tucked in with them. "Cyberpunk" ain't much
of a label anymore, either. Shirley's earliest published
stories, in Ted White's FANTASTIC (long after it was Howard
Browne's FANTASTIC, but before the current former-PIRATE
WRITINGS FANTASTIC) in the '70s, tended to be surreal
fantasies.
TM
-----Original Message----- From: Paula Guran [mailto:
darkecho@darkecho.com]
sure go ahead. you might ref www.darkecho.com/JohnShirley
there's a lot of info there.
>Fair enough. Any objection to my sending your
response onto Rara-Avis?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Paula Guran
>Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 3:29 PM
>
>The Specialist books were written under the pseudonym
John Cutter. I
>think there were 11 of them. The series became the
basis for a very
>bad Sylvester Stallone movie that Sharon Stone was
also in. I think
>the WGA term is "suggested by" and I think the
original credit was as
>"John Patrick"
>
>I wouldn't call JS a splatterpunk -- a term that's no
longer used
>anyway -- he was one of the earliest writers to write
pretty
>visceral horror.
>
>
>
>
>>John Shirley. Who's been doing more horror than
sf for the last decade,
>but
>>was one of the few who could be tucked in among
both cyberpunks and
>>splatterpunks. TM
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