The Limited Edition of The Best of Lucius Shepard Volume Two Available

All preorders for the limited edition of The Best of Lucius Shepard, Volume Two have gone out the door, and we have a handful of copies remaining.

As some of you know, this edition ran into serious production problems, so we were not able to fill the complete print run.

The main volume runs just shy of 850 pages, and is accompanied by a 400 page bonus hardcover, Youthful Folly and Other Lost Stories, which contains an additional seventeen stories that have never before been collected.

Trade: Fully cloth bound hardcover edition: $50

Limited: 250 numbered hardcovers with exclusive bonus hardcover collection: $225

Locus Magazine just graced the book with a long, generous review. We're only too happy to share part of it with you:

“My favourite of these stories—though it’s not an easy choice—is ‘Dagger Key’. Set on a fictional Caribbean island off the coast of Belize, a local man named Fredo, possessed by the spirit of his ancestor, the Pirate Annie, faces off against an entitled and duplicitous white couple seeking to strip Fredo and Annie of the family’s treasure… For example, ‘‘Ariel’’ is a twisted sort of love story about a couple who have been tasked to hunt and kill iterations of each other to save the multiverse from destruction. The provocative ‘A Walk in the Garden’ is about a platoon of American soldiers in Iraq who discover a gateway into Paradise (it doesn’t end well), while the explosive ‘AZTECHS’ is an uber-violent story of competing drug cartels and the aspirations of a God-level artificial intelligence. At the top of the heap, at least for me, is the sublime ‘’Dog-Eared Paperback of My Life’’. It’s the tale of best-selling fantasy novelist Thomas Cradle who happens across a book on Amazon, ‘The Tea Fores’, written by an alternative version of himself. In deciding to follow the same journey chronicled by his alter ego, a sex and drug-fuelled expedition across Cambodia and Vietnam, Cradle will come face to face with multiple versions of himself and will come to realise his true purpose and the true purpose of all Thomas Cradles. This feverdream of a novella, riffing on Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and featuring one of the most vicious take-downs of genre fiction and fandom ever put into print, is an encapsulation of everything I love about Shepard: the lush, indulgent prose, the large servings of sex and violence, the plots that unspool in unexpected directions and a setting, beautifully realised, that is somewhere other than mid-west America.”