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	Lucius Shepard Floater Reviewed by Rick Kleffel
		Lucius Shepard's 'Floater', a short novel from PS Publishing, offers a beautifully wrought, terrifying vision of post 9/11 New York filtered through the tortured conscience of an NYPD detective involved in the tragic shooting of an unarmed Haitian immigrant.
		Shepard's prose is the perfect mix of grimy city slang and emotive understatement.
		Shepard's New York landscape is one of aching absence.
	trashotron.com /agony/reviews/2003/shepard-floater.htm (740 words)

	Amazon.com: Eternity and Other Stories: Books: Lucius Shepard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Lucius Shepard is one of America's finest overlooked writers, a man who has labored in relative obscurity (relative, that is, to the popularity he should have obtained twenty years ago) his entire career, turning out finely polished gems of prose in a world that, it would seem, prizes rough cuts.
		Shepard's female character wants to know what it's like in the pit where the towers were, and his male protagonist is too wasted by the experience to tell her--that strikes me as a wonderful metaphor for the way Americans were feeling on 9/11 and directly afterward.
		Lucius Shepard obviously doesn't feel this way as he jumped straight in and faced the challenge of articulating the experience of 9/11 through the superficially whimsical tale of a grad student and a ghost.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1560256621?v=glance (2651 words)

	Science Fiction Weekly Interview
		Shepard: In the early '80s, I spent considerable time in El Salvador and Honduras, a period during which there was a great deal of American military involvement in that region due to the contra war and the civil rebellion in Salvador.
		Shepard: The easy way out would be to say I'm lazy, but I think it's more a case of stories finding their own length—most of the stories I've wanted to tell have fallen into the short-novel category by virtue of their narrative demands.
		Shepard: Several years ago, I contracted to do an article for Spin concerning a hobo organization called the FTRA (Freight Train Riders of America), a group that certain elements of law enforcement claimed was a hobo mafia responsible for—among other crimes—hundreds of murders, drug running on a massive scale, and the derailing of trains.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue314/interview.html (6033 words)

	Shepard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Shepard tone, a sound consisting of a superposition of tones separated by octaves
		Shepard's Citations a legal reference for finding what are valid cases.
		Lucius Shepard, a science fiction and fantasy writer
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shepard (156 words)

	Lucius Shepard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Lucius is watching it live in a closed circuit theater with a friend who hasn't seen much boxing.
		Lucius can't sleep that night; he knows he's just witnessed a masterwork of the sweet science, and so he sits down at the keyboard of his Mac and starts writing.
		Lucius has his game face on as he settles in front of the tube.
	www.jimkelly.net /pages/shepard.htm (820 words)

	Lucius Shepard interviewed - infinity plus non-fiction
		Lucius Shepard published his first SF story in 1983, and was soon recognized as one of the finest authors of short fiction the speculative genres had yet seen.
		Shepard's published novels are Green Eyes (1984), a striking foray into the metaphysics of Death, Life During Wartime (1987), a dense exploration of Central America through the lens of a future war, Kalimantan (1990), a long novella of Borneos here and elsewhere, and The Golden (1993), a vibrant apotheosis of the vampire novel.
		Shepard is currently embarked on an energetic new phase of his writing career; his skill with the novella form is strongly evident in "Crocodile Rock" (F&SF, 1999), "Radiant Green Star" (Asimov's, 2000), "Eternity And Afterward" (F&SF, 2001), "Aztechs" (Sci Fiction, 2001), and "Over Yonder" (Sci Fiction, 2002).
	www.infinityplus.co.uk /nonfiction/intshepard.htm (5020 words)

	The Mumpsimus
		Shepard is one of the most capable writers ever to grace the pages of science fiction and fantasy magazines, and he's had a bit of crossover success as well, publishing in Esquire and Playboy, among others.
		Only a few of Shepard's stories have ever seemed to me to be truly successful as works of literature, regardless of genre or marketing labels, with "The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule" standing as the pinnacle of his achievement, at least among the works of his I've read.
		Shepard could easily be as good a writer as Hemingway, and probably a better one, a more versatile and humane one, but he can't let the sappy success he's had within the SF field blind him to the greater possibilities within his work.
	mumpsimus.blogspot.com /2003/12/walk-in-gardenby-lucius-shepard.html (659 words)

	DarkEcho Review: Louisiana Brakdown by Lucius Shepard
		Stories from Lucius Shepard were few and far between in 90s and he was sorely missed.
		All three novellas display different aspects of Shepard's remarkable talents as a writer and all are worth reading.
		Shepard's authorial juju is potent stuff and Lousiana Breakdown casts a significant and powerful spell.
	www.darkecho.com /darkecho/reviews/louisiana.html (432 words)

	Golden Gryphon Press - Lucius Shepard Interview
		But don't tell that to Lucius Shepard, one of the most respected writers of science fiction and fantasy for over two decades now.
		Unlike many writers today, Shepard adopts the same hands-on perspective that produced fellows like Hemingway or Harlan Ellison: He likes to get out in the world and experience whatever he writes about, rather than using a library or an assistant.
		For Shepard, traveling and experiencing other cultures are important to the way he writes.
	www.goldengryphon.com /shepard-int2.html (587 words)

	Lucius Shepard Viator Reviewed by Rick Kleffel
		As Lucius Shepard's novel from Night Shade Books begins, the new nominal captain, Thomas Wilander, has already settled into an increasingly peculiar regimen with his oddball crew.
		Shepard, who has always written gorgeous prose, lets loose with the prose equivalent of a wailing, soulful saxophone solo, a strung-out, run-on wonder that leaves the reader positively breathless.
		It seems as if Viator, though fixed in the forest, is still in the midst of a journey, a journey to an exotic world that each of the men may be catching a very different glimpse of.
	trashotron.com /agony/reviews/2005/shepard-viator.htm (828 words)

	Amazon.de: Beast of the Heartland: And Other Stories: English Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Though their settings range from the mean streets of contemporary Boston to the badlands of a postapocalyptic future earth, Shepard's genre-bending blends of fantasy, crime, western and SF find a common compass in small moments that invite characters to examine themselves and the relationships that define their identities.
		Shepard is worthy of your reading time, and his full-length novels are equally astonishing.
		Lucius Shepard proves once again that he is the highmark in fiction with this collection.
	www.amazon.de /exec/obidos/ASIN/1568581262 (977 words)

	Bookslut \| An Interview with Lucius Shepard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Lucius Shepard’s bio itself reads like a fantastic work of fiction.
		It would be challenging to find a job Shepard hasn’t had at one time or another.
		The traveling continued but, now, Shepard was writing from the field, covering the war in El Salvador as a freelance journalist.
	www.bookslut.com /features/2004_12_003799.php (1067 words)

	Viator - shop.derkeiler.com Product Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Lucius Shepard is yet another of science fiction's elegant stylists, and a founding member of its cyberpunk movement.
		Lucius Shepard is one of America's most underrated writers by any standards.
		Viator, his latest offering (but not for long; Shepard has two coming out in 2005), continues the trend both of wonderful writing and lack of anything even remotely resembling press coverage.
	shop.derkeiler.com /products/asinsearch_1892389444 (296 words)

	Lucius Shepard
		Lucius Shepard was born in August of 1947 in Lynchburg, Virginia, and raised in Daytona Beach, Florida.
		His first adventure was to Ireland aboard a freighter followed by several years in Europe, North Africa, and Asia, working in a cigarette factory in Germany, in the fl market of a Cairo bazaar, as a night club bouncer in Spain, and in numerous other countries at numerous other occupations.
		Lucius says that while on the road to California, his car broke down in Detroit so he joined a band there and passed the better part of the 1970s playing rock and roll in the Midwest.
	www.writersontheedge.org /shepard.htm (359 words)

	Newport News-Times: Lucius Shepard and Tom Smario to appear at Writers On The Edge
		Lucius Shepard and Tom Smario will read from new work.
		Shepard was born in Lynchburg, Va., and has traveled extensively in Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean.
		Shepard was soon recognized as one of the finest authors of short science fiction ever.
	www.newportnewstimes.com /articles/2004/11/12/arts/arts18.txt (961 words)

	Excessive Candour
		And, like all Shepard, it has to be wrestled with, it earns that much effort from the reader.
		Like many of Shepard's least paraphrasable tales, it is, in the end, an Arabian Nightmare: a series of dreams, each worse than its predecessor, each of them leading the dreamer deeper into the terrible pulse of things, and no exit ever.
		This time round, he is really only interested in trying to describe the wounded who claw for dayspring, the disappeared who have learned how to breathe—like lungfish, "going forward is who they are"—in these waters of this planet.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue393/excess.html (984 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Although the last thing I expected from Shepard was "a sensual novel of vampires and blood lust" (from the cover), I hunted it down (not to be found in the SF section) and dove in.
		In keeping with contemporary convention, some of Shepard's vampires are tired of being evil creatures of the night, spiritually less than human.
		Unlike Rice's vampires, though, Shepard's are both forcefully heterosexual (Rice's seem to be most strongly same-sex oriented) and able to physically participate in sex -- sex that goes well beyond the human in its forms.
	sf.www.lysator.liu.se /sf_archive/sf-texts/books/S/Shepard,Lucius.mbox (820 words)

	Rambles: Lucius Shepard, Liar's House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Lucius Shepard has a thing for dragons, and in particular the dragon Griaule who makes his most recent appearance in the short novel Liar's House.
		What sets Griaule apart from the dragons of McCaffrey, Tolkien and other fantasists is that he's not the sort of creature that flies about breathing fire and wreaking havoc on the countryside.
		Lucius Shepard is a poetic writer, one whose work is frequently a joy to read.
	www.rambles.net /shepard_liars04.html (509 words)

	Two Trains Running ~ Lucius Shepard
		In early 1998, author Lucius Shepard — winner of the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy Awards for his evocative, and provocative, short fiction — embarked on a new journey.
		Shepard joined the "hobo nation" — riding the rails throughout the western half of the United States, his "neighbors" the disenfranchised, the homeless, the punks, the gangs, and the joy riders.
		In Two Trains Running, author Lucius Shepard juxtaposes fact and fiction — and ultimately reality and imagination — in this new collection of stunningly picaresque tales of redemptive life on the rails.
	www.gothicrevue.com /Twotrainsrunning.html (829 words)

	Craig's Book Club reviews Lucius Shepard's Two Trains Running
		Plus, Shepard's disdain for the hoboes and their choice of lifestyle is palpable throughout the article and, indeed, the entirety of Two Trains Running.
		From the little I learned about hoboes from my other readings, their lifestyle seems to be in direct opposition to the sort of fantastic world that Shepard puts them in, making it difficult to take the writing seriously.
		This, combined with his obvious lack of respect for his subjects, even down to their creative expression and the concept of the "hobo moniker," meant that the more I read of Two Trains Running, the less I liked Lucius Shepard.
	www.geocities.com /craigsbookclub/shepard.html (611 words)

	Wheatland Press - Polyphony - Authors - Lucius Shepard
		Shepard also writes a regular film (and film industry) review column for Electric Story; his reviews are online at www.electricstory.com.
		Upcoming in 2003, Shepard has a mini collection of articles and stories about hobos called Two Trains Running, a short novel from Golden Griffin called Louisiana Breakdown, and a novel entitled The Iron Shore.
		Born in Virginia and raised in Florida, Shepard has lived in the Midwest, New England, New York and most recently the West Coast.
	www.wheatlandpress.com /polyphony/authors/lshepard.html (424 words)

	Lucius Shepard, Two Trains Running
		Multi-award-winning author Lucius Shepard delves into this world with both factual and fictional results.
		In 1998, author Lucius Shepard investigated this problem on his own by voluntarily joining the hobo community.
		Even this is a stretch, because after involving us in the lives of two engaging people, Madcat and Grace, and their personal issues during their attempt at a relationship, Shepard complicates things with flashes of the abnormal, seemingly just to remain in the realm of the speculative.
	www.greenmanreview.com /book/book_shepard_twotrainsrunning.html (558 words)

	Ink 19 :: The Jaguar Hunter
		Every single one is set in an unexpected locale -- from the heights of Katmandu to the jungles of Guatemala, Lucius Shepard manages to not only paint a vivid environment, but carefully weave it into the tale he spins.
		And if the strange locales aren't enough to pique your interest, Shepard's knack for the subtly supernatural is a formidable force; as a reader, you feel like a tourist finding yourself way over your head in a place where you're not exactly on sure footing.
		Shepard's description of Aimée Cousineau's possessive spirit -- "her eyes were dead-fl ovals" -- gave me shivers I haven't felt since I first read Lovecraft.
	www.ink19.com /issues/september2001/printReviews/jaguarHunter.html (460 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Green Eyes
		Lucius Shepard was born in Lynchburg, Virginia, in 1947.
		If you go to this book with preconceptions, you will inevitably find them overturned but if you just go with the flow, you will find that Shepard knows what he is doing.
		At times, the novel seems as directionless as a road movie, an episodic cruise, but at the end we find that Shepard has always been in control of the story and everything comes together.
	www.sfsite.com /05a/ge127.htm (654 words)

	Review \| Beast of the Heartland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Lucius Shepard writes in the real world, but his fiction would have been at home in Joseph Campbell's Astounding.
		With flawless elegance, he writes adventure stories in which characters go through shattering transformations and in which (to evoke Ornette Coleman) "beauty is a rare thing" and compassion even rarer.
		The real world, filled as it is with the ugliness and pettiness that motivate the passionate fury of Shepard's best work, will continue to provide raw matter for Lucius Shepard, a weaver of tales that matter, of tales that, in the face of indifference, scream for a better world.
	www.januarymagazine.com /sff/heartbeast.html (559 words)

	VanderWorld: LUCIUS SHEPARD
		This interview with Lucius Shepard appeared in truncated (and slightly altered) form in Rain Taxi's print edition several months ago.
		The qualities I most admire about Shepard’s work are his eye for the perfect detail, his talent for intimate characterizations, and the way in which political or social issues impact on the personal lives of his characters without being preachy.
		It's pretty funny, because Lucius and I were both very busy and distracted, so although the final product seems pretty effortless, it was an excruciating, drawn-out process of actually conducting the interview.
	vanderworld.blogspot.com /2005/07/lucius-shepard.html (3064 words)

	Article: Interview: Lucius Shepard
		ne of the most influential speculative fiction writers to emerge from the 1980s, Lucius Shepard has built a name for himself with a lush and varied body of work.
		Lucius Shepard: It wasn't most of the '90s, it was like.
		Is this the natural Lucius Shepard voice, or is there a conscious effort on your part to cultivate a unique voice?
	www.strangehorizons.com /2004/20040105/shepard.shtml (3696 words)

	The Absolutely Weird Bookshelf Hardcover Science Fiction and Fantasy Books: S
		Shepard, Lucius Barnacle Bill the Spacer Orion, London 1997 1st ed, near F in dj.
		Shepard, Lucius The Golden Zeising, Shingletown 1993 1st trade ed, near F in dj.
		Shepard, Lucius The Scalphunter's Beautiful Daughter Zeising, Willimnatic 1988 1st trade ed, near F in dj.
	www.strangewords.com /weirdbooks/weirds2.html (7606 words)

	Lucius Shepard's Trujillo. The Eternal Night Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Web Site
		Trujillo is a collection of eleven stories by author Lucius Shepard.
		It was the first work by Lucius Shepard that I have ever read and I am sure that it will not be the last.
		It is difficult to truly describe the writing of Lucius Shepard.
	www.eternalnight.co.uk /books/s/shepardlucius/trujillo.html (475 words)

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