ISBN 1-85798-114-6 (UK hbk), 1-85798-169-3 (UK pbk)

"The Ends of the Earth" by Lucius Shepard
(short story, first published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction , March 1989),

"Delta Sly Honey" by Lucius Shepard
(short story, first published in the anthology In the Field of Fire , edited by Jeanne Van Buren Dann and Jack Dann, 1987),

"Bound for Glory" by Lucius Shepard
(short story, first published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine , October 1989),

"The Exercise of Faith" by Lucius Shepard
(short story, first published in The Twilight Zone Magazine , June 1987),

"Nomans Land" by Lucius Shepard
(short story, published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine , October 1988),

"Life of Buddha" by Lucius Shepard
(short story, first published in Omni , May 1988),

"Shades" by Lucius Shepard
(short story, first published in the anthology In the Field of Fire , edited by Jeanne Van Buren Dann and Jack Dann, 1987),

"Aymara" by Lucius Shepard
(short story, first published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine , August 1986),

"A Wooden Tiger" by Lucius Shepard
(short story, first published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction , October 1988),

"The Black Clay Boy" by Lucius Shepard
(short story, first published in the anthology Whispers VI , edited by Stuart David Schiff, 1987),

"Fire Zone Emerald" by Lucius Shepard
(short story, first published in Playboy , February 1986... incorporated into the novel Life During Wartime ),

"On the Border" by Lucius Shepard
(short story, first published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine , August 1987),

"The Scalehunter's Beautiful Daughter" by Lucius Shepard
(novella, first published as a small press hardback by Mark V.Ziesing, 1988... a follow-up to "The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule"),

"Surrender" by Lucius Shepard
(short story, first published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction , August 1989).

"The stories in this superb collection are multi-faceted, and a list of some of their components -- fantasy, surrealistic future warfare, psychic landscapes, the spirit world, cyberpunk, worlds where technology and science are giving way to magic -- can barely hint at the strength of the entertainment herein. Rather like Joseph Conrad mixed with Francis Ford Coppola, the powerhouse narrative drive that underpins Lucius Shepard's fiction ensures rich, gripping reading.

"Including the searingly beautiful novella The Scalehunter's Beautiful Daughter , The Ends of the Earth is testimonial to a genius of the genre, and the emergence of a major American writer." [jacket blurb, UK hbk, 1993]