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Michael Shea (July 3, 1946 – February 16, 2014) was an American fantasy, horror, and science fiction author living in California. He has won "year's best" World Fantasy Awards for the novel Nifft the Lean and the novella Growlimb.
Shea was born to Irish parents in Los Angeles in 1946. There he frequented Venice Beach and the Baldwin Hills for their wildlife. He attended UCLA and Berkeley and hitch-hiked twice across the US and Canada.
At a hotel in Juneau, Alaska, Shea chanced on a battered book from the lobby shelves, The Eyes of the Overworld by Jack Vance (1966). Four years later, after a brief first marriage and one year hitch-hiking through France and Spain, he wrote a novel in homage to Vance, who graciously declined to share the advance offered by DAW Books. It was Shea's first publication, A Quest for Simbilis (1974), and an authorized sequel to Vance's two Dying Earth books then extant. ISFDB notes that it "became non-canonic" in 1983 when Vance "continued ... The Eyes ... in a different direction."
Subsequently Shea ranged all over the L.A. Basin, painting houses and teaching ESL to adults by night. In 1978 he met his second wife, artist and author Lynn Cesar. They had two children, Adele and Jacob.
Shea moved to the Bay Area where (prior to 1987) he held a variety of occupations, including instructor of languages, construction laborer, and night clerk in a Mission District flophouse.
Shea was quiet for a few years but re-emerged with the collection of four linked novellas Nifft the Lean (1982). Nifft showed that Shea had developed the exotic style of Vance (perhaps influenced by Clark Ashton Smith) plus the ingenuity of Fritz Leiber's Gray Mouser stories to produce an extravagant quest novel. It won the 1983 World Fantasy Award as year's best novel.
Shea followed up with The Color out of Time (1984) and In Yana, the Touch of Undying (1985), about a vain opportunist's search for immortality in a land of fable.
Polyphemus (1987) is a collection of deft science fiction and horror stories published by Arkham House. Some betray the possible stylistic influence of Stephen King.
Shea continued the adventures of Nifft in The Mines of Behemoth (Baen, 1997), serialised one year earlier in the Algis Budrys magazine Tomorrow Speculative Fiction, and in a novel The A'rak (2000). The Nifft stories are "sword-and-sorcery" modeled on Jack Vance, notable for their imaginative depiction of the world of demons and their blend of horror, flowery diction, and occasionally crude humor.
Shea's work overlaps the science fiction and fantasy genres, e.g., demons and aliens that act as endoparasites.
Shea's interest in Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos has continued throughout his career. Copping Squid and Other Mythos Tales (2010) is a collection of such tales.
Shea died unexpectedly on February 16, 2014.
Reviewing The Incomplete Nifft, Elizabeth Hand declared that "not even Bosch could capture the sheer, obsessive teemingness of Shea's world. . . . In their picaresque and unrelenting strangeness, Shea's tales evoke Jack Vance and Lord Dunsany, Clark Ashton Smith's Zothique tales, as well as The Worm Ouroboros; but what his work most reminds me of is David Lindsay's A Voyage to Arcturus, a book which had always struck me as being sui generis. Having read and delighted in The Incompleat Nifft, I must create a new category for this beautiful, terrifying work, part sword-and-sorcery, part season in hell. Call it Shea generis."
More information:
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https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/58856.Michael_Shea |
Nifft the Lean series
Michael Shea - Nifft The Lean (read by John Michael Morgan)
Michael Shea - The Mines Of Behemoth (read by John Michael Morgan)
Michael Shea - The A'Rak (read by John Michael Morgan and Kathleen Gati)
Extra series
Michael Shea - The Extra (read by William Hughes)
Michael Shea - Assault On Sunrise (read by Rodney Gardiner and Tom Taylorson)
Other
Michael Shea - Polyphemus (read by Jack Fox)
Code:
Nifft the Lean series
http://rapidgator.net/file/68c5bcfef91cd95d418203623d77ee19/Nifft_The_Lean.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/8cdeedeeafa60d927e46d0015b5a6bb4/The_Mines_Of_Behemoth.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/63cfaf39065177f236b5216f458ac63b/The_A_Rak.rar.html
Extra series
http://rapidgator.net/file/8775c206452462f54813c216e0c0c516/The_Extra.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/db286973126197a9d6ea5b785f02f78c/Assault_On_Sunrise.rar.html
Other
http://rapidgator.net/file/3dc299b9119692ec36bb9a8ac5084265/Polyphemus.rar.html |
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