John Shirley

Stormland (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

They call it Stormland: a sprawling, largely abandoned region of the southeastern coast of the USA, where climate change's extreme weather conditions have brought about a 'perfect storm' of perpetual tempests; where hurricane-strength storms return day after day, 365 days a year.

The heart of Stormland is Charleston, South Carolina, a flooded ruin where hundreds of people remain for their own peculiar reasons; where thugs prey on the weak, and a strangely benevolent cult tries to keep everyone insanely sane. Here, plutocratic evil takes advantage of Stormland's lawlessness to cultivate a weirdly puppeted theater of cruelty.

Swept into the turbulent vortex of Stormland is an unlikely duo-a former serial killer and a former US Marshal-who must work together to bring light to America's late twenty-first century heart of darkness.

A cyberpunk detective thriller set in a maelstrom of climatic upheaval, classism, and corrupt power, Stormland paradoxically dramatizes the resilience of the human spirit.

John Shirley won the Bram Stoker Award for his story collection Black Butterflies and is the author of numerous novels, including the bestseller Demons, the cyberpunk classics City Come A-Walkin', Eclipse, and Black Glass, and the urban fantasy novel Bleak History. He has written for television and movies and was coscreenwriter of The Crow. He has also written lyrics for eighteen songs recorded by Blue Oyster Cult, in addition to his own recordings.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Blackstone Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 100
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781094017846
• Artikelnr.: 63650945

Autorenporträt

John Shirley is one of the original cyberpunk writers. He is the author of numerous novels, including Demons, Crawlers, Wetbones, Cellars, Bleak History, City Come A-Walkin', Bioshock: Rapture, and the Song Called Youth trilogy. His story collections include the Bram Stoker Award-winning Black Butterflies. He is coscreenwriter of The Crow, has written an episode of the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine television series, as well as animation scripts.