Lucius Shepard


musician, author, science fiction, cyberpunk, slipstream, fantasy, horror, magic realism, supernatural, voodoo, south america, music


Born 19?? in Lynchburg, Virginia, United States. Grew up in Florida.


"Lucius Shepard endured a harsh childhood designed to hot house him. It worked -- he was reading Shakespeare at the age of five. At fifteen he left home and has since led a highly colourful life." [publisher's bumpf, in the UK edition of The Ends Of The Earth , 1994]


Traveled extensively in Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, and the Caribbean.


"He has taught Spanish at a diplomatic school, owned a T-shirt company, worked as a janitor in a nuclear facility and as a bouncer at a whorehouse in Malaga, and most recently 'beat his brains out' as a rock musician.

"After graduating from Clarion Science Fiction Writers' Workshop in 1980, Shepard sold his first novel, Green Eyes , in 1984. His short fiction has been published in many national magazines and has been nominated for various Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards. In 1987 Bantam Books published his acclaimed novel Life During Wartime ." [publisher's bumpf, in The Jaguar Hunter , May 1989]


"Shepard is an incendiary talent, the original wild mind translated into some of the greatest SF, fantasy and horror ever written." [publisher's bumpf, in the UK edition of The Ends Of The Earth , 1993]


Winner of the 1985 Campbell Award.
Winner of the 1986 Nebula Award for the novella R & R .
Winner of the 1993 Hugo Award for the novella Barnacle Bill the Spacer .


"Neither a strict realist nor a genre fantasist, Shepard employs a visionary realm as an extension, an intensifier, of the world we know." [publisher's bumpf]


"Shepard manipulates genre elements in order to transcend genre expectations." -- (in New York Review of Science Fiction ).


"He is currently living in Massachusetts." [publisher's bumpf, in The Jaguar Hunter , May 1989]

"Has of late shored up in Seattle." [publisher's bumpf, in the UK edition of The Ends Of The Earth , 1993]



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Of Related Interest

  • CyberCulture
  • Cyberpunk
  • Fantasy
  • Future
  • Gothic
  • Horror
  • Magic Realism
  • Music
  • Postmodern
  • Science Fiction
  • Slipstream
  • South America

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