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“Brings to mind the best work of Graham Greene, Robert Stone, and Ward Just.”–Wall Street Journal
The fiction of Lucius Shepardhas more to do with Joseph Conrad than Isaac Asimov. Fascinated bydeception and decay, and generally labeled a cyberpunk writer, his worktranscends the limits of genre fiction. Beast of the Heartland containsseven tales that explore the dark side where science fiction meetshorror. Headed by the award-winning “Barnacle Bill the Spacer,” a storyof high-space mutiny, the book includes “A Little Night Music,” a gothictale of insanity; “All the Perfumes of Araby,” where an adventurer inthe Middle East links up with an ancient entity; “Human History,” apostapocalyptic chiller; “Sports in America,” a noir tale in theChandler tradition; “The Sun Spider,” a mini space opera; and the titlestory–an ingenious picture of a battered boxer on the decline.
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