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Beast of the Heartland spellslinger and infrequent good decisions: the"Brings to mind the best work of Graham Greene, Robert Stone, and Ward Just." Wall Street Journal The fiction of Lucius Shepard has more to do with Joseph Conrad than Isaac Asimov. Fascinated by deception and decay, and generally labeled a cyberpunk writer, his work transcends the limits of genre fiction. Beast of the Heartland contains seven tales that explore the dark side where science fiction meets horror. Headed by the award winning "Barnacle