ISBN 1-85798-500-X (UK hbk),,, 1-85798-500-1 (UK pbk)

"Barnacle Bill The Spacer" by Lucius Shepard
(novella, first published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine , July 1992... Winner of the 1993 Hugo Award for Best Novella),

"A Little Night Music" by Lucius Shepard
(short story, first published in Omni , edited by Jeanne Van Buren Dann and Jack Dann, 1987... reissued in the booklet Sports & Music , Mark V.Ziesing, 199?),

"Human History" by Lucius Shepard
(novella, published in World Fantasy Convention Program Book, 1995... also in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine , April 1996),

"Sports in America" by Lucius Shepard
(short story, first published in Playboy , July 1991... reissued in the booklet Sports & Music , Mark V.Ziesing, 199?),

"The Sun Spider" by Lucius Shepard
(short story, published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine , April 1987),

"All the Perfumes of Araby" by Lucius Shepard
(short story, first published in the anthology Omni Best Science Fiction 2 , May 1988),

"Beast of the Heartland" by Lucius Shepard
(short story, first published in Playboy , September 1992).

"Lucius Shepard is one of the foremost short story writers of his age, working across many genres. This collection is headed by the Hugo Award winning 'Barnacle Bill the Spacer', a science fiction that is both eerie and enchanting, forward looking and nostalgic. The six further works included demonstrate in spectacular fashion the breadth of Shepard's unique imagination, exploring the darkside where science fiction meets horror, where real life becomes nightmare.

"Like his earlier collection The Ends of the Earth , winner of the World Fantasy Award in 1992, Barnacle Bill The Spacer is a tour-de-force of imaginative fiction." [jacket blurb, UK pbk, 1997]