Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 18:07:24 -0400
Subject: [WSFA] Lucius Shepard, 1947 - 2014
From: Michael Walsh <walshmichaelj at gmail.com>
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A good friend, a great writer, past Disclave GoH (1989, along with
artist J. K. Potter).

Michael Swanwick has a nice appreciation:
http://floggingbabel.blogspot.com/2014/03/lucius.html

He lived large.

The first WSFA Press book was his "The Father of Stones".

The ending of his novella ""The Scalehunter's Beautiful Daughter" ends":

"From that point on little is known of her other than the fact that
she bore two sons and confined her writing to a journal that has gone
unpublished. However, it is said of her--as is said of all those who
perform similar acts of faith in the shadows of other dragons yet
unearthed from beneath their hills of ordinary-seeming earth and
grass, believing that their bond serves through gentle constancy to
enhance and not further delimit the boundaries of this prison
world--from that day forward she lived happily ever after. Except for
the dying at the end. And the heartbreak in between."

mjw