23: John Shirley
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English - April 25, 2018 00:00 - 57 minutes - 52.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsBooks Arts Society & Culture art arts ballard burroughs conversation counterculture culture industrial interview literature Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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John Shirley is a cyberpunk pioneer (along with William Gibson, Rudy Rucker and Bruce Sterling). He tells of his life and how he started writing: basically, start writing your dreams! Dreams can go anywhere! Dreams became short stories, and some were expanded into full-length novels. Duck-and-cover, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the idea of nuclear war inspired literally hundreds of dreams where he was incinerated by a nuclear explosion. He tells how he became a published author and more...