Life During Wartime
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Life During Wartime
By (Author) J.G. Ballard
By (author) Lucius Shepard
Orion Publishing Co
Gollancz
11th August 2015
11th June 2015
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
813.54
Short-listed for Arthur C. Clarke Award 1989 (UK)
Physical Properties
Paperback
432
Width 132mm, Height 196mm, Spine 30mm
300g
Description
In the jungles of Guatemala, David Mingolla is struggling to survive amongst the rotting vegetation and his despairing fellow foot soldiers. He knows he is nothing but an expendable pawn in an endless war. On R & R a few miles away from the warzone he meets Debora - an enigmatic young woman who may be working for the enemy - and stumbles into a deadly psychic conflict where the mind is the greatest weapon.
Reviews
One of the most intriguing books of the year ... superior writing - Science Fiction Review
Perhaps the most exciting new storyteller of them all - Washington PostShepard manipulates genre elements in order to transcend genre expectations - The New York Review of BooksAuthor Bio
Lucius Shepard was born in the USA in 1947. From the mid-1960s to the early 1980s he lived in various parts of the world and travelled widely. He won the John W. Campbell Award for best new writer in 1985 and also won the World Fantasy Award twice. He died in 2014.
