New Taboos

Mixing outlaw humour, sci-fi adventure and cutting social criticism, original Dread Lord'' of Cyberpunk, John Shirley, draws upon his arsenal of narrative and commentary in New Taboos. The title piece is Shirley''s prescription for a radical re-visioning of America. A new short story, ''State of Imprisonment'', is a horrifying and hilarious look at the privatization of the prison industry. The 1% get their comeuppance in ''Where the Market''s Hottest.'' And Shirley''s TED address (delivered in Brussels, 2011) presents a proudly contrarian view of the next forty years.''