Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 20:34:49 -0400
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
To: wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com, WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: [wsfa-forum] Lucius Shepard, 1947 - 2014
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

On 03/20/14 18:07, Michael Walsh wrote:
> A good friend, a great writer, past Disclave GoH (1989, along with
> artist J. K. Potter).

Oh, hell. I remember following his writing in the eighties, and yes, he *was*
brilliant.

mark
>
> 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 unpublished.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
>