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Overview: Michael A. Shea’s writing career began when he was thirteen, and his published writing career commenced in 1973 with the publication of A Quest For Simbilis–an hommage to the great Jack Vance, and sequel to his Eyes of the Overworld. Shea callowly offered Mr. Vance co-credit if he allowed Shea to publish it. Mr. Vance, graceful and kind, assured the novice that he should sell it if he could, and the neophyte contented himself with an acknowledgment that introduced the text.
Shea quit his natal L.A. and repaired to Frisco’s Mission District, where he met his life-mate, artist and author Linda Cesar. They lived by teaching, painting, and writing–preponderantly the former two. Through the years of their union, and the growth of their remarkable son and daughter, Shea produced his works of science fiction and fantasy.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
1 Nifft The Lean
A collection of four stories involving Nifft the master thief.[1]
First story, Come Then, Mortal — We Will Seek Her Soul, has Nifft and his companion Haldar are hired to complete a lover’s vengeance from beyond the grave, with a valuable magic item as their payment.
Second story, The Pearls of the Vampire Queen, involves Nifft and another companion, Barnar, poaching valuable swamp pearls, and interfering with a ritual by the titular vampire queen.
Third story, The Fishing of the Demon-Sea has Nifft and Barnar magically compelled to go into a demonic underworld to save a merchant prince’s son, that has been caught by a sea-demon he summoned. The rescue does not go without complications.
Fourth story, The Goddess in Glass, has Nifft at the mining city of Anvil’s Pasture, involved in the efforts to save the city from a collapsing mountain with the help of a cult of a dead alien goddess. Again, things do not develop the way the people of the city expected or hoped.
2 Mines of Behemoth
Nifft the Lean and his companion-in-arms, Barnar Hammer-Hand, were often lucky. En route to working Costard’s sap mine–very dangerous and sometimes nauseating work far below ground–they were shipwrecked. But this proved fortuitous when they met Bunt, who had been seeking just such as they. If they would work the sap mine, but also bring back 20 gills of fluid, he would make them exceedingly wealthy. So it was settled. Of course, the best laid plans sometimes do go a little astray.
4 The Incompleat Nifft
THIS TIME, THEY WOULD MAKE A KILLINGJoin master thief Nifft the Lean with his companion-at-arms, mighty barbarian Barnar Hammer-Hand, as they trust to their wits and their luck. Once Nifft and Barnar were hired by the ghost of a dead woman to kidnap the man who betrayed her and drag him down to hell to join her. A simple task — or so they thought at first….
Another time, the pair lucked into an even more lucrative proposition, when they were shipwrecked on the way to work in Costard’s sap mine — very dangerous and sometimes nauseating work far below ground — and were hired by Bunt to bring back twenty gills of the ichor exuded only by the monstrous insectile queen. It seemed like easy money — they wouldn’t have to go to hell Of course, the best laid plans sometimes do go astray,
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