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Shiner began his career as a science fiction writer, but then identified with cyberpunk, and later wrote more mainstream novels, albeit often with magical realism and fantasy elements. He was formerly a resident of Texas (and a member of the Turkey City Writer's Workshop), and now lives in North Carolina.
Shiner graduated from Southern Methodist University in 1973.
Several of his novels have rock music as a theme or main focus, especially the musicians of the late 1960s; for example, Shiner's 1993 novel Glimpses considers the great never-recorded albums of The Doors, Brian Wilson, The Beatles and Jimi Hendrix. Say Goodbye: The Laurie Moss Story (1999) focuses on a fictional up and coming…

Novels
- Frontera
- Deserted Cities of the Heart
- Slam
- Glimpses
- Say Goodbye
- Black & White
- Dark Tangos
- Mozart in Mirrorshades (with Bruce Sterling)

Collections
- Nine Hard Questions about the Nature of the Universe
- The Edges of Things
- Twilight Time
- Private Eye Action As You Like It (with Joe R. Lansdale)
- Love in Vain
- Shades of Gray (chapbook available with the signed, numbered limited edition of Black and White)
- Love in Vain (Australian edition, includes previously uncollected novellas "Perfidia" and "Primes")
- Collected Stories
- Widows & Orphans (chapbook available with the signed, numbered limited…

1994 - World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (for Glimpses)
World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology - nominee