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Cargando... Green Eyes (1984)por Lucius Shepard
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Life the second time around is short, strange and terrifying to the awakened. One "zombie", victim of a bizarre scientific obsession, breaks away, leaving a trail of muder and miracle as he flees the Project and the horror his "life" hasbecome. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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One is struck by how completely Shepard as a writer had become himself, even at this early stage in his career. The heat and humidity of the bayou, the marginal protagonist moving through a series of lushly vegetated, eerie scenes, the liminal menace, the fine writing interspersed with passages of florid description: all present. He's best known for novella-length work, but here and in A Handbook of American Prayer, it's clear he could write novels just as well.
I bought this book in 1984, and just read it now for the first time - pays to hang on to books, no? The year 1984 was vintage for SF&F, seeing the first-novel debuts of William Gibson (Neuromancer) and Kim Stanley Robinson (The Wild Shore), both, like the Shepard, "Ace Science Fiction Specials." There's a skippable introduction by editor Terry Carr.
Not in the front rank of Shepard's fiction, but gripping and thoughtful. ( )