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Dragon Griaule
Häftad, 2013
365 kr
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Lucius Shepard's acclaimed Dragon Griaule stories are presented here for the first time in a single volume. This Fantasy Masterworks edition contains:'The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule''The Scalehunter's Beautiful Daughter''The Father of Stones''Liar's House''The Taborin Scale''The Skull'This …
Life During Wartime
Av J.G. Ballard, Lucius Shepard
Häftad, 2015
429 kr
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"Richly peopled, highly literate, and brilliantly drawn ... one of the finest science fiction writers of all time" - Science Fiction Chronicle"Seminal. Like a book on Vietnam, but science fiction. Amazing!" - Amazon Reviewer, 5 stars"The prose astounds. Lucius Shepard was a genius!" - Goodreads …
Life During Wartime
Av Lucius Shepard, J.G. Ballard
E-bok, 2010
45 kr
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"Richly peopled, highly literate, and brilliantly drawn ... one of the finest science fiction writers of all time" - Science Fiction Chronicle "Seminal. Like a book on Vietnam, but science fiction. Amazing!" - Amazon Reviewer, 5 stars "The prose astounds. Lucius Shepard was a genius!" - Goodreads …
Dragon Griaule
E-bok, 2013
45 kr
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Lucius Shepard''s acclaimed Dragon Griaule stories are presented here for the first time in a single volume. This Fantasy Masterworks edition contains: ''The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule'' ''The Scalehunter''s Beautiful Daughter'' ''The Father of Stones'' ''Liar''s House'' ''The Taborin …
Green Eyes
E-bok, 2013
51 kr
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Dr Ezawa had made some remarkable discoveries about the Voodoo beliefs that persisted in the Louisiana bayou country - like how to create zombies by injecting corpses with the dirt from old slave graveyards. The eyes of the awoken dead blazed with a brilliant green luminosity, and before they …
Golden
E-bok, 2013
45 kr
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Castle Banat: a stronghold of insane enormity, created by a monstrous architectural genius. The size of Banat is such that it even has its own weather. Inside, room after room is filled with fantastical horrors: Banat holds an infinity of mystery and terrible wonder. The castle is home to the …
Viator Plus
E-bok, 2013
45 kr
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The stories gathered here conduct the reader from the wastelands of the near future to the zoned-out bacchanals of Hollywood, from the fevered bordellos of Central America to the hallucinated revels of redneck country, from the broken hears of wandering loners to alluring fantasy realms just beyond …
Kalimantan
E-bok, 2012
51 kr
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Curtis MscKinnon is an intemperate, naïve fool. Sure of his invulnerability as an American expatriate, he comes to Borneo to play at being disreputable. His illusions and charm make him a dangerous man: soon enough, he is in trouble and forced to hide in the jungles of Kalimantan. He discovers a …
Handbook of American Prayer
E-bok, 2014
51 kr
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A man walks into a bar. A dispute ensues, and the bartender kills him. He''s sentenced to ten years for manslaughter. In prison, the convict, Wardlin Stuart, writes prayers addressed to no god in particular. Inexplicably, his prayers - whether it''s a request for a girlfriend or a special favor for …
Colonel Rutherford's Colt
E-bok, 2014
50 kr
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The itinerant gun show draws together many subcultures from the margins of society: survivalists, Aryan brotherhoods, and the team of Rita Whitelaw and Jimmy Roy Guy, dealers in collectible arms. Rita has made Jimmy an exception to her general disdain for whites - "not your typical Caucasian," as …
Valentine
E-bok, 2013
50 kr
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In a landscape that will exist only for as long as it is imagined, VALENTINE unfolds to reveal the intricacies of the human heart. In South Florida, a hurricane alert waylays a journalist in the coastal town of Piersall. This safe harbour hosts an unlikely reunion, as he miraculously finds himself …
Aztechs
E-bok, 2013
51 kr
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In Aztechs , Shepard returns to the near-future setting of his Nebula Award-winning story, "R&R" (later part of Life During Wartime). El Rayo, the bustling border community grown up along the electrified fence along the U.S./Mexican border, is home to Eddie Poe, who earns his living by providing …
Louisiana Breakdown
E-bok, 2014
51 kr
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Jack Mustaine discovers Grail, Louisiana, when the BMW he "borrowed" to leave L.A. breaks down outside the town. The sheriff nearly scams him out of the car before Grail''s top dog, Joe Dill, comes to the rescue. Then Dill brings Jack to Le Bon Chance saloon, where Jack starts wondering whether he …
Softspoken
E-bok, 2013
51 kr
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A chilling and mysterious voice becomes audible to Sanie shortly after she and her husband Jackson move into the decaying antebellum mansion that is the Bullard ancestral home in rural South Carolina. At first, she wonders if the voice might be a prank played by Jackson''s peyote-popping brother …
Vacancy
E-bok, 2013
51 kr
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A washed-up actor, a mysterious motel and a Malaysian "woman of power" form the central elements in a riveting account of a rootless man forced to confront the impossible - but very real- demons of his past.
Ariel
E-bok, 2013
50 kr
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Ariel brilliantly transmutes some traditional SF concepts - alien incursions, the mysteries of quantum physics - into an astonishing, often moving reflection on love and obsession, memory and identity, and the archetypal conflict that stands at the heart of an infinite multitude of worlds.
Jaguar Hunter
E-bok, 2013
51 kr
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Fourteen stories - including "Radiant Green Star", winner of the 2001 Locus Award for Best Novella - make up this classic collection. Leading off the book is the Nebula Award-winning title story, in which a poor Honduran hunter is coerced into tracking the forbidden "Black Jaguar of Barrio …
Ends of the Earth: Fourteen Stories
E-bok, 2015
51 kr
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Lucius Shepard''s short fiction ranges far and wide over the field of SF and fantasy, and is crammed with show-stopper ideas and an intense originality. The Ends of the Earth is a testimonial to a genius of the genre, and a major American writer. Winner of the 1992 World Fantasy Award for Best …
Two Trains Running
E-bok, 2014
51 kr
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This collection of fact and fiction was inspired by the time science fiction writer Lucius Shepard spent with Missoula Mike, Madcat, and other members of a controversial brotherhood known as the Freight Train Riders of America. Shepard rode the rails throughout the western half of the United States …
Trujillo and Other Stories
E-bok, 2013
50 kr
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In the town of Trujillo, in Honduras, on the edge of the Mosquito Coast, Dr. Arturo Ochoa, a semi-retired psychiatrist, has a single patient: a troubled young man named Thomas Stearns, the son of a wealthy Atlanta family. Stearns has been found adrift on the Caribbean in a vessel owned by two …
Dagger Key: And Other Stories
E-bok, 2013
51 kr
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Lucius Shepard is a grand master of dark fantasy, famed for his baroque yet utterly contemporary visions of existential subversion and hallucinatory collapse. In Dagger Key , his fifth major story collection, Shepard confronts hard-bitten loners and self-deceiving operators with the shadowy …
Nantucket Slayrides: Three Short Novels
E-bok, 2013
51 kr
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Nantucket Slayrides contains the two short novels "How the Wind Spoke at Madaket" and "Nomans Land" by Shepard and Robert Frazier''s "The Summer People".
Barnacle Bill the Spacer and Other Stories
E-bok, 2010
51 kr
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This collection by Lucius Shepard, one of the most exciting new writers to emerge in the 1980s, includes the eponymous story ¿Barnacle Bill the Spacer¿, about an attempted mutiny on a space station, which won the Hugo Award, as well as ¿Sports in America¿, about a man who finds out just how far he …
Lucius Shepard SF Gateway Omnibus
Green Eyes, The Jaguar Hunter, Vacancy
E-bok, 2015
170 kr
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Lucius Shepard''s work ranges across the fields of fantasy, science fiction and magic realism, garnering comparisons with Joseph Conrad, Graham Greene and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Best-known for the story suite The Dragon Griaule - available as a Gollancz Fantasy Masterwork - he has won or been …
Only Partly Here
Ljudbok, 2009
114 kr
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Lucius Shepard explores the after-effects of trauma in this haunting story. Bobby is a Columbia grad student studying philosophy who has taken a year off from school to help with the meticulous clean-up at ground zero after 9/11. Each day, he enters a nightmarish otherworld of smoke and ash, where …
Colonel Rutherford's Colt
Ljudbok, 2009
224 kr
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The itinerant gun show draws together many subcultures from the margins of society: survivalists, Aryan brotherhoods, and the team of Rita Whitelaw and Jimmy Roy Guy, dealers in collectible arms. Rita has made Jimmy an exception to her general disdain for whites, for Jimmy’s got a storytelling …
Lucius Shepard SF Gateway Omnibus
Green Eyes, The Jaguar Hunter, Vacancy
Häftad, 2015
330 kr
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Lucius Shepard's work ranges across the fields of fantasy, science fiction and magic realism, garnering comparisons with Joseph Conrad, Graham Greene and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Best-known for the story suite The Dragon Griaule - available as a Gollancz Fantasy Masterwork - he has won or been …
