Lucius Shepard's first novel, Green Eyes, available as an ebook

[garygibsonsf]

This is more by way of a heads-up for people who are fans of Lucius Shepard than it is a deal or anything like that, but I like to think there are enough Shepard fans floating around MobileRead to make this notable. His first novel, Green Eyes, is now available for $6.99 through Amazon, no DRM. News of any of Shepard's older novels coming out as ebooks is good news to me. It's essentially a literary zombie novel by one of the best writers out there.

Details:

"'A powerful book, dramatic and imaginative and lively' -- ANALOG

The most original zombie novel ever written!

A carnival worker dead of alcohol poisoning, Donnell Harrison has been reborn with new memories and a profound literary talent. To reconnect him to the world and make him pliant, the reanimation team employs Jocundra Verret, a therapist who has gained the trust of numerous subjects, but when Donnell finds his latent power to control energy, Jocundra shares his doubts about the scientists' goals. Together they flee on a quest to discover Donnell's true origins and potential, and ultimately to confront evil at the heart of a fabulous bayou dynasty, where Donnell must restore order among strange and brutal alternate worlds."

[curtw]

Interesting. I just downloaded the sample, and found at least one error in the first few pages that's not in the copy that I scanned, OCR'ed, proofread and e-mailed to Mr. Shepard last year. I hope Electricstory didn't charge him for the "professional" conversion.