""Brings to mind the best work of Graham Greene, Robert Stone, and Ward Just."--Wall Street JournalThe fiction of Lucius Shepard has more to do with Joseph Conrad than Isaac Asimov. Fascinated by deception and decay, and generally labeled a cyberpunk writer, his work transcends the limits of genre fiction. Beast of the Heartland contains seven tales that explore the dark side where science fiction meets horror. Headed by the award-winnin ..."
Life During Wartime (S.F. Masterworks) by ShepardLucius Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 2015 by Gollancz ISBN-13: 978-1-4732-1193-3, ISBN: 1-4732-1193-X
" Darkness surrounds us. We can find darkness anywhere: in a strange green stone etched with mysterious symbols; at a small town's annual picnic; in a ghostly house that is easy to enter but not so easy to leave; behind the dumpster in the alley where a harpy lives; in The Nowhere, a place where car keys, toys, people disappear to; among Polar explorers; and, most definitely, within ourselves. Darkness flies from mysterious crates; surro ..."
"Five Autobiographies and a Fiction, the long-awaited new collection from master storyteller Lucius Shepard, is a significant publishing event, a volume equal in every way to such earlier Shepard classics as The Jaguar Hunter and The Dragon Griaule. Its six long stories offer narrative pleasures as diverse and profound as anything to be found in modern imaginative fiction.'Ditch Witch,' set in rural Oregon, concerns a young man on the ru ..."
The Dragon Griaule by LuciusShepard Hardcover, 432 Pages, Published 2012 by Subterranean ISBN-13: 978-1-59606-456-0, ISBN: 1-59606-456-0
"More than twenty-five years ago, Lucius Shepard introduced us to a remarkable fictional world, a world separated from our own 'by the thinnest margin of possibility.' There, in the mythical Carbonales Valley, Shepard found the setting for 'The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule,' the classic account of an artist--Meric Cattanay--and his decades long effort to paint--and kill--a dormant, not quite dead dragon measuring 6,000 feet from en ..."
"In the Carbonales Valley, a remote region separated from this world by the thinnest margin of possibility, there is an ancient, incredibly large creature known as the Dragon Griaule. For twenty-five years, in stories ranging from The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule through Liar's House, Lucius Shepard has brought us extraordinary accounts of lives shaped by the dragon's undying influence. The Taborin Scale is the latest installment i ..."
The Golden(1st Edition) by LuciusShepard Paperback, 196 Pages, Published 1993 by Bantam Books ISBN-13: 978-0-553-56303-0, ISBN: 0-553-56303-3
"Lucius Shepard. I'm very grateful to the following people for their assistance
during the making of this book: Jim Turner, Ralph Vicinanza, Chris Lotts, Robert
Frazier, Mark and Cindy Ziesing, Arne Fenner, and Jennifer Hershey. The
GOLDEN ..."
The Jaguar Hunter by LuciusShepard Paperback, 356 Pages, Published 1989 by Bantam ISBN-13: 978-0-553-34695-4, ISBN: 0-553-34695-4
"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 title story, a poor Honduran hunter is coerced into tracking the forbidden black jaguar of Barrio Carolina."
"Over 120,000 words of fiction from talented, award-winning writer Kaaron Warren."
The Dragon Griaule (Fantasy Masterworks) by LuciusShepard Paperback, 464 Pages, Published 2013 by Gollancz ISBN-13: 978-0-575-08992-1, ISBN: 0-575-08992-X
"More than twenty-five years ago, Lucius Shepard introduced us to a remarkable fictional world, a world separated from our own 'by the thinnest margin of possibility.' There, in the mythical Carbonales Valley, Shepard found the setting for 'The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule,' the classic account of an artist--Meric Cattanay--and his decades long effort to paint--and kill--a dormant, not quite dead dragon measuring 6,000 feet from en ..."
"A HANDBOOK OF AMERICAN PRAYER, Lucius Shepard's first novel with the Concord Free Press, comes at a time when prayer is in the air when prayer breakfasts are accepted as viable political events."
Eternity and Other Stories(1st Edition) by LuciusShepard Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2005 by Carroll & Graf ISBN-13: 978-1-56025-662-5, ISBN: 1-56025-662-1
"Here are seven stories from a master of the art. Viktor Chemayev is the Philip Marlowe of Russian detectives, a sad-eyed, heavy drinking romantic who refuses to stay beat. In the title novella of this extraordinary collection, he goes head-to-head with an Irish assassin in the depths of a Moscow nightclub in an attempt to win back his true love, who has been sold to the Beelzebub-like king of the Moscow underworld... Lucius Shepard is k ..."
The Ends of the Earth by LuciusShepard Paperback, 484 Pages, Published 1994 by Millennium Import ISBN-13: 978-1-85798-169-8, ISBN: 1-85798-169-3
Kalimantan(1st Edition) by LuciusShepard, Jamel Akib Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 1992 by St Martins Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-312-07007-6, ISBN: 0-312-07007-1
"Curtis MacKinnon, a drifter, leaves Florida for the jungles of Borneo, where he experiments with the local drug, seribu aso, a hallucinogen that alters reality"
Orbit The Best of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, No. 3 by Isaac Asimov, LuciusShepard, Garry Kilworth Paperback, Published 1990 by Eclipse Books ISBN-13: 978-1-56060-061-9, ISBN: 1-56060-061-6
"graphic stories from Isaac Asimov's S.F. magazine."
LIFE DURING WARTIME (Bantam new fiction) by LuciusShepard Paperback, 438 Pages, Published 1987 by Bantam ISBN-13: 978-0-553-34381-6, ISBN: 0-553-34381-5
"In the jungles of Guatemala, David Mingolla is struggling to survive amongst the rotting vegetation and his despairing fellow foot soldiers. He knows he is nothing but an expendable pawn in an endless war. On R & R a few miles away from the warzone he meets Debora - an enigmatic young woman who may be working for the enemy - and stumbles into a deadly psychic conflict where the mind is the greatest weapon."
Beautiful Blood by LuciusShepard Hardcover, 296 Pages, Published 2014 by Subterranean ISBN-13: 978-1-59606-652-6, ISBN: 1-59606-652-0
"Lucius Shepard's Beautiful Blood is something both special and long awaited: the first novel-length exploration of the world of the Dragon Griaule. It's a subject that has preoccupied Shepard since the publication of ''The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule'' in 1984, and he has returned to it repeatedly over the years, though never before in such a mesmerizing, all-encompassing fashion.Like the initial tale, Beautiful Blood begins in t ..."
"Famous stories of the apocalypse by the world’s best science fiction writers.Before The Road by Cormac McCarthy brought apocalyptic fiction into the mainstream, there was science fiction. No longer relegated to the fringes of literature, this explosive collection of the world’s best apocalyptic writers brings the inventors of alien invasions, devastating meteors, doomsday scenarios, and all-out nuclear war back to the bookstores with a ..."
"From the first lines of A Handbook of American Prayer, award-winning author Lucius Shepard signals his place in the classic American tradition of confessional memoirists. While his plot is unique, his literary precedents include the great moral chroniclers of crime on the biblical scale. Wardlin Stuart is an American messiah, a man who seems to have a direct line to God—but if he does, it's a divinity unlike any you may have prayed to. ..."