Michael Shea
Born
in Los Angeles, California, The United States
July 03, 1946
Died
February 16, 2014
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Jack Vance
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Nifft the Lean
16 editions
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1982
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Demiurge: The Complete Cthulhu Mythos Tales of Michael Shea
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8 editions
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2017
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A Quest for Simbilis
14 editions
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1974
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The Color Out of Time
4 editions
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1984
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In Yana, the Touch of Undying
7 editions
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1985
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Polyphemus
9 editions
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published
1987
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The Autopsy: Best Weird Stories of Michael Shea
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Mines of Behemoth
5 editions
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1997
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The Incompleat Nifft
4 editions
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2000
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The Extra (Extra Trilogy, #1)
15 editions
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2010
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“Even the littlest minds, sunk in petty pride of self, are susceptible to chords struck on the cosmic scale.”
― Demiurge: The Complete Cthulhu Mythos Tales of Michael Shea
― Demiurge: The Complete Cthulhu Mythos Tales of Michael Shea
“It had been a windy night, that night where his life had taken its turning. The atmosphere, in flood, was trying to wash the trees right off the hills. The big oaks twisted and shuddered like black flames in the moonlight, and the white grass rippled and bannered.
The wind that night made him feel his chronic longing. The wind, trying to stampede the trees, was roaring for a grand, universal departure to another solar system, a better deal, and the grass struggled to join the rootless giant of the air. All that lives strives to fly, to master time. All tribes of beings strain to rise in insurrection, all knowing their time is short, all, when the wind blows, wanting to climb aboard. ("The Growlimb")”
― Best New Horror 16
The wind that night made him feel his chronic longing. The wind, trying to stampede the trees, was roaring for a grand, universal departure to another solar system, a better deal, and the grass struggled to join the rootless giant of the air. All that lives strives to fly, to master time. All tribes of beings strain to rise in insurrection, all knowing their time is short, all, when the wind blows, wanting to climb aboard. ("The Growlimb")”
― Best New Horror 16
“Up before sunrise. Marjorie hated getting out of bed in the dark, but loved the payoff once she was dressed and rolling down the country roads in the first light, cruising and owning them almost alone. The countryside here used to be a lot more interesting, though. She remembered it in her girlhood - orchards, small ranches, farmhouses, each one of these houses a distinct personality... Money, she thought wryly, scanning the endless miles of grapevines, all identically wired and braced and drip-lined, mile after mile - money was such a powerful organizer.
As the dawn light gained strength, and bathed the endless vines in tarnished silver, it struck her that there was, after all, something scary about money, that it could run loose in the world like a mythic monster, gobbling up houses and trees, serving strictly its own monstrous appetite. ("The Growlimb")”
― Best New Horror 16
As the dawn light gained strength, and bathed the endless vines in tarnished silver, it struck her that there was, after all, something scary about money, that it could run loose in the world like a mythic monster, gobbling up houses and trees, serving strictly its own monstrous appetite. ("The Growlimb")”
― Best New Horror 16
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