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Here are seven stories from a master of the art. Viktor Chemayev is the Philip Marlowe of Russian detectives, a sad-eyed, heavy drinking romantic who refuses to stay beat. In the title novella of this extraordinary collection, he goes head-to-head with an Irish assassin in the depths of a Moscow nightclub in an attempt to win back his true love, who has been sold to the Beelzebub-like king of the Moscow underworld... Lucius Shepard is known for his dark, unpredictable vision, and in this assemblage of some of his best writing he takes us from Moscow to Africa; from the mountains of Iraq, where Specialist Charlie N. Wilson encounters a very different sort of enemy, to Central America, where a bloody-handed colonel meets his doom via lizards. In these seven tales Shepard's imagination spans the globe and, like an American Gabriel Garcia Marquez, refuses to be restricted by mere reality.
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Only Partly Here is a Masterpiece (from someone who was there).......2007-09-17
I was happy to see Mr. Shepard's contribution here and I hope he keeps reading these comments.
Only Partly Here is a special story for me. I was present one-block from Ground Zero during the attack, at my office in a building just North of the Post Office. I saw people die that day and ran for my life like thousands of others (both, for the first and only time in my life), and felt that I had experienced war. The weeks afterwards were as unreal as any that can be lived. There was a bar across the street from my office that I believe Mr. Shepard must have visited because he captured it perfectly in the 'Blue Lady' -- its called Dakota's Roadhouse and is notable only for cheap drinks and a good jukebox, and it was a hangout for people from my agency for a time, and later for the pit workers. We moved to Maiden Lane while the pit was still burning, but we went back to Dakota's as soon as it reopened. We were steeped in the smell of our City still burning, and we had many occasions to visit the death-stalked "London during the blitz" landscape that was previously a big piece of our lives and our city.
I read Only Partly Here as soon as it was published in Asimov's and I cried. It captures perfectly the mood, the place and the time. It also captures perfectly the peculiar pain a man feels when trying desperately to connect with a woman who, even if living, is not truly present for other people. I never connected with my particular living ghost of Ground Zero, but I connected totally with Mr. Shepard's story. It is the finest piece of 9/11 literature I know, and one of the best short stories I've read, period. Thank you, thank you Mr. Shepard. (I would have been at Readercon to thank you in person, but my wife was having a baby at the time.)
Not Free SF Reader.......2007-08-04
This is a collection that is a bit more of a supernatural focus, I suppose, even if only a light element at times.
Eternity and Other Stories : Only Partly Here - Lucius Shepard
Eternity and Other Stories : A Walk In the Garden - Lucius Shepard
Eternity and Other Stories : Crocodile Rock - Lucius Shepard
Eternity and Other Stories : Hands up! Who Wants To Die? - Lucius Shepard
Eternity and Other Stories : The Drive-in Puerto Rico - Lucius Shepard
Eternity and Other Stories : Jailwise - Lucius Shepard
Eternity and Other Stories : Eternity and Afterward - Lucius Shepard
Annoyingly vague vaguely ghostly woman.
3.5 out of 5
Squad level hell.
4 out of 5
Yank bloke in Africa meets magic man, dreams of eating people. As a werecrocodile. Perhaps has evidence to be slightly worried about this when awake. As a consequence, decides on the intercontinental manoeuvre.
3.5 out of 5
Hillbilly hooks up, complications ensue when alien abductee FBI woman on the lam, hybrid lovechild and lover take a fancy to his girl and offer loot.
3.5 out of 5
Indigo lizard looms liminal.
3 out of 5
Arty prison transferee surprised by sexual mirror chameleons.
3.5 out of 5
Magic mafiya's dead dude disco.
4 out of 5
brilliant and transformative .......2007-02-14
Lucius Shepard's vision has transformative powers - both for his characters and for the reader. These masterfully crafted stories create highly individual worlds that are dark, fantastical, deeply human and always believable despite the surreal twists. You'll never see crocodiles and lizzards the same way after this - whether as agents of horror or kindred souls to lost humans, they are always mysterious manifestations of human rapaciousness, madness or loneliness.
You will go to the moral chaos of gangsterist Russia, the jungles of South America, Africa, a rather strange American prision, and the aftermath of 9/11. There is definitely a `fantastical' and dream-like streak in these stories, but not so much for fantasy's sake as in the sense that the boundaries of the real, the possible and the explicable are imaginatively stretched to reveal the horrors or mysteries that lie beyond. Unlike most `fantastical' or SF writing, this is fiction primarily concerned with people, places, and ideas. Lucius Shepard's grasp of foreign cultures and places is second to none in American fiction, and I dare say in English-language fiction. He makes writers far more famous than him seem dull and provincial.
I envy those about to discover this marvellous writer. If you hunger for more after you finish this, his novel A Handbook of American Prayer is likewise wild, brilliant and disturbing. His shorter novel Trujillo is a dark gem, and I'm about to chomp my way through the rest of his work. I'm addicted.
Ethereal, surreal, and moving sci-fi collection.......2006-08-24
As with so much of his writing, here Shepard once again proves himself a poet who just happens to write in the genres of fantasy and sci-fi. That few of his stories tie up neatly just adds to their sense of a world unraveling, which seems to be a central theme of his work.
Stories like A Walk in the Garden, Crocodile Rock, The Drive-In Puerto Rico, Eternity and Afterward--heck, to tell the truth, all of them--are haunting in their descriptions of their protagonists' struggles against the unknown, entropy, injustice, the dissolution of themselves, or whatever else sparks Shepard's imagination, and it is his ability to make each character real that tinges each story with a kind of sadness that reaches down into the gut and wrenches, much like the best of, say, Russell Banks' or Stewart O'Nan's work.
It is his very power to move, perhaps, that caused the tempest in the teapot in Amazon's reviews about Only Partly Here, which I took as a elegy of what we all lost on that terrible day.
....And for what it's worth, I couldn't care less about the rants of sensitives regarding 9/11; I was in downtown Manhattan that day, and still it seems obvious to me that to insist that writers ignore moments of historical tragedy is to disregard the power and scope of many of history's greatest works--War and Peace, All Quiet on the Western Front, Night, and many others come to mind.
--And absolutely it is to distract us, potential readers, from the great and beautiful jewels of stories collected here.
For my sake, I just wish Mr. Shepard wrote faster, because I love his work and can't wait for his next novel or short story collection. Easily he's one of my favorite sci-fi/fantasy writers. After reading this collection, he may become one of yours as well.
Shepard, as usual, is on his game........2006-03-13
Lucius Shepard, Eternity and Other Stories (Thunder's Mouth Press, 2005)
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. Eternity and Other Stories is Shepard's most recent, as of this writing, collection of short fiction, and like every other book of Shepard's I've read to date, I can unhesitatingly give it the Misanthrope (and Goat) stamp of approval.
While the stories here are very good-- open to a random page and you'll get finer writing than you will in 95% of the books published last year, guaranteed-- the collection is slightly inconsistent. Shepard's penchant for thick, somewhat difficult prose always runs the risk of a story getting bogged down in a lack of pace, and it does happen here on occasion; "Hands Up! Who Wants to Die?" is an especially slow trek, without the kind of million-dollar payoff at the end that makes some difficult books among the best you'll ever read (Grass' Dog Years and Walker's The Secret Service come to mind). But these are balanced out by the stories that, while still thick going, grab you and absolutely refuse to let go until you've turned the final page; these comprise the bulk of the book. "Jailwise" and "Eternity and Afterward," the book's final two pieces, are especially good at this sort of thing, despite being the two longest stories here (I didn't count words, but I'd be willing to bet that "Eternity and Afterward" is almost as long as Shepard's brilliant 2004 novel Viator); they caused me to forgo food and sleep.
There aren't enough different ways for me to say "you can't go wrong with Lucius Shepard;" eventually I may have to stop reviewing his work altogether, simply because the reviews will turn into carbon copies of one another. But really, there's nothing else to be said-- you can't go wrong with Lucius Shepard. *** ½
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From the aftermath of World War III to a world inherited by robots, where humans are unwelcome . . . from a handful of human survivors on a starship desperately searching for other ships carrying survivors of the destruction of the entire Earth by an unknown enemy, who may strike again at any time, to another starship hurtling through the cosmos at a speed so close to that of light¿and unable to slow down¿that relativistic effects make millennia fly by for each tick of the clock onboard . . . from a team striving to make Venus habitable for humans to a group of men who find the ominous secret behind a new quasi-religious philosophy that is sweeping the world. . . . The wide-ranging imagination and exciting storytelling of Poul Anderson brings many different worlds to vivid life in a great volume of his best stories that will thrill all fans of science fiction.
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A hard-hitting, fast-paced collection.......2007-07-08
Poul Anderson's TO OUTLIVE ETERNITY AND OTHER STORIES paints a number of evolutionary scenarios, from a world after World War III inherited by robots to starships carrying humans to other destinies. This collection also holds the complete novel AFTER DOOMSDAY, and thus binds all drama and themes together in a hard-hitting, fast-paced collection perfect for any library that holds some of Anderson's works and wants a hard-hitting short story collection to add to the mix.
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Best-Sellers and Their Film Adaptations in Postwar America: From Here to Eternity, Sayonara, Giant, Auntie Mame, Peyton Place (Modern American Literature : New Approaches, Volume 28)
Jane Hendler
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Best-Sellers and Their Film Adaptations in Postwar America looks at some of the most popular novels of the 1950s and examines how their representations of gender identity and conflict dispute and re-imagine the dominant constructions of masculinity and femininity in postwar culture. Working with the claim that gender identity emerged as a primary signifier of national identity within Cold War ideology, Jane Hendler provides a detailed, illuminating analysis of how five best-sellers and their film adaptations address a range of intersecting historical issues, including communist containment, corporate culture, family life, and race relations, all of which were integrally linked to gender and key issues of American identity. Each chapter offers compelling, layered readings of the multiple social discourses that fed into the production and reception of these texts that will interest readers in film, gender, and cultural studies.
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When the first explorers of Mars return to Earth…
When the universe comes to an end…
When one man tries to cheat death and destiny…
When alien invaders encounter the totally unexpected…
When a man of the future reaches back into the past…
When the world is plunged into darkness…
When five people stand on the rim of eternity…
When an alien power seeks a sacrificial human being…
When a dying curse echoes down the centuries…
When pulp legend JOHN RUSSELL FEARN lets his fantastic imagination roam time and space…
The result is a memorable collection of stories no true sf fan will want to miss - THE BEST OF JOHN RUSSELL FEARN!
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The James Jones Reader: Outstanding Selections from His War Writings, Including from Here to Eternity,the Thin Red Line, and Whistle
James Jones
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Courting Susannah
Linda Lael Miller
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ASIN: 067100400X
Release Date: 2000-10-03 |
Book Description
When Susannah McKittrick leaves Nantucket for the boomtown of Seattle, she is hardly looking to strike it rich; she is headed west to care for a newborn left motherless after Susannah's cousin died. Although the rigorous trip depletes all of her savings, Susannah is certain she is doing the right thing. She is less sure when she meets the infant's father, wealthy businessman Aubrey Fairgrieve -- who seems embittered toward love and marriage, and indifferent toward the precious baby Susannah is so eager to care for.
Gradually, Susannah discovers that Aubrey's marriage to her cousin was far from perfect -- and she comes to see the brusque but handsome man in a new light. But when Aubrey makes her a most practical offer, it is a far cry from the heartfelt proposal Susannah desires. If he truly wants to win her hand, he will have to learn to trust once more -- and sweep her away with the bold passion of a man in love.
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A Solid 4 1/2 Stars.......2007-04-08
Courting Susannah is a charming book that features Susannah McKittrick, the namesake of the book obviously, and Aubrey Fairgrieve, the widower of Susannah's childhood friend.
Linda Lael Miller again writes a good, solid tale of two wonderful characters and secondary characters also. She weaves humor in with the romance, and even some suspense. While I felt the ending was a little too hurried and abrupt, it was still a good storyline and I highly recommend it!
A good book..........2006-07-28
I thought the book was good but not something I'd pick up & read again. There wasn't very much action or suspense but it was good nonetheless. The storyline was a good one but I expected more from it. If you don't mind a slow romance then go ahead & read this book but if you are looking for a bunch of excitement I'd try another one.
A thoroughly Enjoyable Book.......2001-10-16
This was a really fun read. At times it was hard to put down. I was pretty satisfied with the character development and plot.
This book is definitley brain candy =)
Courting Susannah.......2001-03-30
This was a wonderful book - the great quality of Linda Lael Miller is evident in the writing of this story. Following Susannah and her battle to over come her feelings for her old friend and her growing feelings for her dead friends husband is wonderful. Couldn't put it down.
4 chili peppers!.......2001-03-22
I always love the poetry of Ms. Miller's books. The characters are so well-drawn, and the chemistry between Aubrey and Susannah is enticing. Throughout this story, though, I feel the external conflict never really reached it's potential. Too many things were heaped on to a particular secondary character, and the reasoning behind why Julia, the dead wife, did what she did was weak. The ending seemed rushed. But, the pull between Aubrey and Susannah is enough for me to give this one a high reccomendation, despite the earler mentioned points.
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Unabridged Large Print edition.
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- Impressive
- Still original and ambitious, but drier than "Lion's Blood"
- Outstanding Sequel
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Zulu Heart: A Novel of Slavery and Freedom in an Alternate America
Steven Barnes
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Zulu Heart returns to the 19th Century of Steven Barnes's justly acclaimed novel Lion's Blood, a brilliant alternate history in which black Africans have colonized the New World with white Europeans as their slaves.
As Zulu Heart opens, New World nobleman Kai ibn Jallaleddin is a senator of New Djibouti, an envied plantation owner, and a loving family man. His ex-slave and friend, the Irishman Aidan O'Dere, is on the Ouachita frontier, helping other ex-slaves build a settlement for themselves. But ex-slaves are always at risk, and an angry mob threatens Aidan, his family, and his entire village with slaughter or re-enslavement. Meanwhile, Kai is entangled in intrigues among not only his fellow senators, but the lords of Egypt and Abyssinia, who have sinister plans for the New World colonies. Pharaoh takes Kai's sister hostage to manipulate Kai, even as Aidan discovers his twin sister, lost since childhood, is the property of a powerful foe of New Djibouti. Aidan has a slight possibility of rescuing his beloved sister, and of helping Kai thwart his enemies, but the only chance of achieving these near-impossible goals requires that Aidan go undercover--a slave once more. --Cynthia Ward
Book Description
Zulu Heart returns to the 19th Century of Steven Barnes's justly acclaimed novel Lion's Blood, a brilliant alternate history in which black Africans have colonized the New World with white Europeans as their slaves.As Zulu Heart opens, New World nobleman Kai ibn Jallaleddin is a senator of New Djibouti, an envied plantation owner, and a loving family man. His ex-slave and friend, the Irishman Aidan O'Dere, is on the Ouachita frontier, helping other ex-slaves build a settlement for themselves. But ex-slaves are always at risk, and an angry mob threatens Aidan, his family, and his entire village with slaughter or re-enslavement. Meanwhile, Kai is entangled in intrigues among not only his fellow senators, but the lords of Egypt and Abyssinia, who have sinister plans for the New World colonies. Pharaoh takes Kai's sister hostage to manipulate Kai, even as Aidan discovers his twin sister, lost since childhood, is the property of a powerful foe of New Djibouti. Aidan has a slight possibility of rescuing his beloved sister, and of helping Kai thwart his enemies, but the only chance of achieving these near-impossible goals requires that Aidan go undercover--a slave once more. --Cynthia Ward
Customer Reviews:
Impressive.......2007-02-10
Zulu Heart is a stunning achievement demonstrating scholarship not often found in fiction. However, despite the thickness of the volume, the story itself is rather thin. I have the feeling that Barnes needed to say all of this, not just to show off, but to set us up for future tales. Its well worth the read regardless and along with Lions Blood constitute an alternative history that puts to shame anything Turtledove has written. Also noteworthy is that Barnes is married to Tananarive Due. This has got to be SFs first family.
Still original and ambitious, but drier than "Lion's Blood".......2005-08-11
In this sequel to the breathtakingly original "Lion's Blood," Steven Barnes returns to his alternate America, now an African colony named Bilalistan. He also brings us back to his two main characters: Kai, a mystic Sufi and younger son who has now inherited the noble title of Wakil, and Aidan, his former Irish slave who now ekes out a frontier existence as a freedman.
Supposedly, the heart of this book is Aidan's attempt to find and reunite with his long-lost sister Nessa, who was sold away from him when they were first captured as slaves. In reality, however, Aidan's search is merely a subplot, a result of Kai's political schemes rather than a driving force. This bummed me out a little, because instead of character-driven plot, angst and heroism and pointless self-sacrifice and all, we get... Politics. Oh, they're interesting politics, but I just wasn't as interested in a possible war between Egypt and Abyssinia and the secession of southern New Djibouti from the rest of Bilalistan as I would have been in the personal lives of Aidan and Kai. (Barnes seems to be invoking both the Revolutionary and Civil Wars here; New Djibouti wants its independence both from its mother country and from the industrialized north.)
Anyway, as part of all this double-dealing and war mongering (and it's pretty confusing; it might take a second reading for me to really understand where all the lines are drawn) Kai decides he absolutely must get his hand on some sort of code-breaking device. To do that, he asks Aidan to re-enter slavery as a sort of gladiator, with the hope that he can then infiltrate the home of the governor and steal the device. To entice him, Kai suggests to Aidan that he could free his sister, who is the paramour of an influential general, at the same time.
A huge part of the book, as I said, is taken up with politics. Another large chunk deals with Aidan's gladiatorial training, which incorporates some of the Sufi techniques that Kai learned back in "Lion's Blood." What we don't see in this book are characters. There's a few interesting ones, particularly some of the female characters Barnes introduces this time around. Yet the familiar triad from the last book - Kai, Aidan, and Aidan's wife Sophia - is conspicuously watered down. I just didn't care about these characters anymore, and that was disappointing.
All in all, I didn't enjoy "Zulu Heart" as much as I did "Lion's Blood". It is, however, still one of the more ambitious and original alternate histories I've ever read, and I am anxious to continue with the series. Again, I would highly recommend this book to anyone interested in American and/or African history.
Outstanding Sequel.......2005-05-26
I couldn't put this book down. It was well researched and written. A compelling and excellent sequel story. I hope there's a 3rd to wrap some things up. This could definitely be a movie - better than Terminator.
Another Masterpiece.......2004-06-16
Again, I was floored by the sheer magnitude of research and imagination that it took for Steve Barnes to write this sequel to LION'S BLOOD. The intricately woven story of an alternate universe where Africans were the slaveowners of European Americans is mindboggling in its presentation. Through the stories of the young Kai and his slave/friend, Aidan, the reader is emersed into a saga that is both enlightening and unforgettable in its portrayal of the "what if" factor.
Barnes attempts the impossible and more than surpasses all expectations I had for the epic. LION'S BLOOD and ZULA HEART are two must haves for any Barnes/Sci-Fi fans.
Beyond Excellent Adventure with Kai & Aidan.......2004-04-18
ZULU HEART continues the saga begun in Steven Barnes's LION'S BLOOD. Now Kai is Wakil and married to his late brother's fiancée, Lamiya and engaged to marry the Zulu princess, Nandi. But knowing that he killed Nandi's uncle, the great warrior, Shaka, can he trust the Zulu woman with his life? Aidan O'Dere is now free and living in a free village with Sophia and his child. But these two childhood friends, the slave owner and the slave must come together again to combat danger and intrigue. There is a war brewing between Egypt and Ethiopia and the New World colonies will be set against each other: North and South. There is a lot of intrigue, plots and danger in this novel. Enough to make the reader read the whole book in one sitting. Some things are still left open, perhaps for the next novel? This was a wonderful book with well-rounded believable characters in a fully realized alternate world. I look forward to the next novel in this series. It doesn't get better than this.
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In this masterpiece of simplicity, Macrina Wiederkehr offers a series of meditations to bring us closer to a "God for all seasons," revised and expanded into this new edition.
Designed for daily use as well as for retreats, Seasons of Your Heart is an eloquent and lyrical invitation to journey through the spiritual seasons of wonder, hope, love, mystery, and faith.
Macrina Weiderkehr shares her "seasonal struggle with God" and encourages us to reconize those same peaks and valleys in our own spiritual life. Using biblical passages, poetry, and excerpts from her journal, Wiederkehr provides meditative ideas and prayers as "postures" for realizing and approaching the holy in our daily lives.
These reflections and prayers, then, have grown out of a daily listening to God in the changing seasons of my spiritual life, "writes the author. "These reflections have grown out of my conviction that our God is not some Almighty Being beyond us, but a Mystery within."
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Need ideas.......2007-10-09
Does anyone have a study format or questions for using Seasons of Your Heart in a group setting (specifically, 8-12 women)? Thank you.
Seasons of Your Heart.......2005-08-22
This little book is full of wonderful and warm stories and poetry that touched me. This Catholic Sister writes with a clarity and grasp of how God's spirit is real in her everyday that is unique, insightful and blessed.
Seasons of Your Heart.......2000-02-04
This book touches your heart. it's excellent because it's spiritual but down to earth where the normal human dwells. "Take off your shoes; you are on hallowed ground."
The name of this book is most appropriate!.......1999-01-18
This book touches many subjects of the heart, and every subject has scripture. I've had heartbreaks in my life, and one line in this book touched me deeply: "When celebration is the only thing that makes sense, we have begun to understand the sacredness of life and death." Yes! That is where I am right now! Celebrating the Goodness of God, and thanking Him for people like Macrina Wiederkehr! I have all her books, and recently had the opportunity to meet Sr. Macrina and attend a retreat day in OKC. She has a way of awakening hearts. Thank you!
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