Lucius Shepard (1947 - 2014) Lucius Shepard was born in the USA in 1947. From the mid-1960s to the early 1980s he lived in various parts of the world and travelled widely. He won the John W. Campbell Award for best new writer in 1985 and also won the World Fantasy Award twice. He died in 2014.
One of the most intriguing books of the year ... superior writing - Science Fiction Review Perhaps the most exciting new storyteller of them all - Washington Post Shepard manipulates genre elements in order to transcend genre expectations - The New York Review of Books