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
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
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
