Stormland

"A tightly paced, well thought-out cyberpunk thriller that entices after the very first chapter...Spare, no-nonsense prose like that of Edgar Rice Burroughs or Karl Edward Wagner, but with a cyberpunk twist that's all [Shirley's] own. It's a sort of cyberpunk noir mixed with a biting commentary on mankind's greed. Stormland is a big, sprawling read with plenty for just about everyone, a fun way to pass the time if stuck at home or on a bus."

-- "New York Journal of Books"

"This swampadelic adventure transmogrifies such real-time disasters as Katrina-flooded New Orleans into the stuff of speculative nightmares."

-- "Paul Di Filippo, Locus"

"With this gripping dystopian novel, Shirley extrapolates a grim vision of a late-twenty-first-century US wracked by climate change...Howling super-hurricanes, grisly torture scenes, and the horrors of scientific experimentation on human brains make for harrowing reading. This is a sober warning about the seductive dangers of power."

-- "Publishers Weekly"

"Snapping, snarling, vigorously wrought drama."

-- "Kirkus Reviews"

"Stormland is a headlong sci-fi thriller about the punk squalor of post-disaster situations. It's also got some remarkably interesting speculative technologies, so I'd say that Mr. Shirley is quite on top of his game with this one."

-- "Bruce Sterling, editor of Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology"

"One of our best and most singular writers. A powerhouse of ideas and imagery."

-- "William Gibson, author of Agency and Neuromancer"

"John Shirley's acerbic humor is a perfect match for his sense of doom and adventure. One of his best. Buckle in!"

-- "Greg Bear, author of Blood Music and The Unfinished Land"

"A powerful and necessary story for these times."

-- "Richard Kadrey, author of the Sandman Slim series"

"Set in a nightmarish future where extreme weather perpetually batters the coast, Stormland portrays human tenacity and ingenuity within a Hobbesian universe. John Shirley has created a vivid, hurricane-soaked canvas and a cast of memorable characters, none more so than a reluctant detective and a reformed serial killer who work in tandem to solve a series of perplexing crimes. A feat of dystopian imagination, Stormland cements Shirley's voice in the upper echelon of the cyberpunk genre."

-- "Jon Bassoff, author of Captain Clive's Dreamworld"