A Star for Lucius Shepard and More Reviews!
Lucius Shepard’s mammoth (over 250,000 words) collection, The Best of Lucius Shepard, just received a starred review from Publishers Weekly. Here’s a small bit of the review: “This fine selection of some of the best short fiction by one of the most respected dark fantasy writers in the world will be a must purchase for aficionados of the genre… Shepard is fantasy literature’s Joseph Conrad or perhaps its Saul Bellow, a writer who never tires of staring directly into the abyss.”
In addition to that glowing bit, online magazine Green Man Review has covered a few other SubPress titles, as well.
On Backup (Jim Butcher): …Backup is a delightful addition to the world of Harry Dresden, available only from the good folks at Subterranean Press this fall.”
On Nick and the Glimmung (Philip K. Dick): “I have the funny feeling that Nick and the Glimmung isn’t even slightly typical of Dick’s work, but I don’t care. I enjoyed it immensely.”
On Venus on the Half-Shell and Others (Philip Jose Farmer): “This is one of those delights that is almost impossible to describe — one can really only nibble around the edges and hope that some of the sense of it gets digested. Even though I’ve been a compulsive reader since toddlerhood, I’m sure there is much here that I’m missing — I can’t possibly remember every author-character from everything I’ve read, but it’s a marvel and a joy to see a gifted writer having this kind of fun. (And happily, there is much here that I do get.)”