Over the last twenty years, Lucius Shepard has carved out a unique place for himself in American literature, a hard-to-classify territory between fantasy and literature that is infused at once with a
Headed by the Hugo Award-winning "Barnacle Bill the Spacer," a story of high-space mutiny, Beast of the Heartland includes "A Little Night Music," a gothic tale of insanity; "All the Perfumes of Arab
Jimmy Roy Guy, a gun dealer with an imagination that borders on mystic vision, delights in telling elaborate stories about the histories of the weapons he sells. When Jimmy makes an agreement with the
Fourteen of Lucius Shepard's most memorable stories are combined with a previously unanthologized novella, Radiant Green Star, to form a stunning sci-fi collection. In the Nebula Award–winning
