![]() ![]() But he does these things, or at least we believe he does these things, really, to ask questions and put forward theories about just why all sorts of people behave in the ways they behave. And yes, in his stories Shepard can and does convincingly inhabit characters as different from each other as the Creature from the Black Lagoon and John Ashcroft. ![]() What they are really about is, and please pay attention to capitalization here, People and Life. ![]() Shepard’s works are not just feats of narrative pyrotechnics from a guy with a big nonfiction library. Heck, his story in the Vice Fiction Issue a couple of years back was set in the Cretaceous ocean.īut what’s always truly surprising about Shepard’s work is the amount of emotional commitment he gives to each story, wherever and whenever it’s set. ![]() In lovingly researched stories and novels, he traverses the globe and glides through history in such a way that reading through his collected output, you’re as likely to encounter ancient Greeks or discontented American teens as you are WWII bomber pilots or Chernobyl technicians. As you will see discussed in the interview that you might be skipping this introduction to read right now, Jim Shepard is known for setting his works of fiction in places and times that are often radically different from his own. ![]()
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