By John Shirley
First Published: 1989
Rating: Excellent.
“Darkness can be divided. It can be split like an atom, and in it can be found a destructive fire—or light. Light, too, can be folded into darkness.”

The stories brought to light in John Shirley’s stunning DARKNESS DIVIDED — most of them never before collected, some written especially for this book–are presented in two sections: one featuring stories set in the present, or the past, the other set in myriad futures. These dark tales of new noir, cyberpunk, fantasy, and crime, demonstrate humankind’s evolution from where we were and where we are, to where we have yet to be. Shadows are a current—a continuity—streaming from “Til Now” into “And Soon.”