Lewis Shiner is one of the original cyberpunk authors. He’s been a cyberpunk rhetorician since the Movement’s beginning. His voice has been a primary and highly articulate force in cyberpunk’s bullheaded and successful battle for public acceptance without compromise. Yet, like most (or all but Gibson) cyberpunks , his own fiction is unlike the others — excepting, of course, an uncompromising devotion to quality.<\/p>\n
Since his first publication in 1977, Lewis Shiner has written a widely ranging spectrum of short stories: mysteries, fantasies, and horror as well as SF. But the 1984 appearance of his first novel, Frontera<\/em>, demonstrated his important role in Movement fiction. Frontera <\/em>combined classic hard-SF structure with a harrowing portrait of postindustrial society in the early twenty-first century. The book’s gritty realism and deflating treatment of SF icons aroused much comment.<\/p>\n Shiner’s work is marked by thorough research and cooly meticulous construction. His lean, vigorous prose shows his allegiance to hard-boiled mystery fiction as well as to such quasi-mainstream authors as Elmore Leonard and Robert Stone.<\/p>\n Lewis Shiner was born in 1950 in Oregon, United States. He grew up in Arizona, Georgia, New Mexico, and in the Sudan. Mr Shiner describes himself as a compulsive researcher. He has travelled widely throughout the USA and Mexico, and has worked as house painter, rock musician, computer programmer, draftsman, clerk, and construction worker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lewis Shiner is one of the original cyberpunk authors. He’s been a cyberpunk rhetorician since the Movement’s beginning. His voice has been a primary and highly articulate force in cyberpunk’s bullheaded and successful battle for public acceptance without compromise. Yet, like most (or all but Gibson) cyberpunks , his own fiction is unlike the others […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lewis-shiner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ticonderogapublications.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ticonderogapublications.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ticonderogapublications.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ticonderogapublications.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ticonderogapublications.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ticonderogapublications.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ticonderogapublications.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ticonderogapublications.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ticonderogapublications.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}