Announcing THE BEST OF LUCIUS SHEPARD
The Best of Lucius Shepard is the first ever career retrospective collection from one of the finest writers of the fantastic to emerge in the United States over the past quarter century. It contains nearly 300,000 words of his best short fiction and is destined to be recognized as a true classic of the field. Lucius Shepard writes from the darkest, truest heart of America — not the heart of the United States or of North America, but all of America — and he writes of it with rare passion, honesty and intelligence. His earliest stories, the ones that made his name a quarter of a century ago were set in the jungles of South America and filled with creatures dark and fantastical. Stories like “Salvador”, “The Jaguar Hunter”, and the excoriatingly brilliant “R&R” deconstructed war and peace in South America, in both the past and the future, like no other writer of the fantastic.
The Best of Lucius Shepard will be available as a $40 cloth bound Trade Hardcover, and as a The Limited Edition ($125) accompanied by an entirely separate volume (projected to be 250-300 pages) of rarities, including such uncollected gems as the novella “Skull City” and “The Glassblower’s Dragon.”