Eight stories of sword and sorcery, each a passport to new country, a point of departure for even wider vistas. Here is a voice which can tell of beauty in a moment, a heretofore unremarked weirdness in the old constellations, a sly joke.
SCHUYLER HERNSTROM is named after P. Schuyler Miller, a family friend. He spent his youth reading and rereading the works of Jack Vanceand Robert E. Howard. He has been a paratrooper, sailor, janitor, bouncer, librarian, and a dozen other things, and so brings a world-wise slant to his pages. His readers witness bloody action recounted in graceful prose, tinted by a sadness for lost ages. Sky lives in Pittsburgh with his wife and children.
