The Golden

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Bantam Books, 1993 - Fiction - 291 pages
They are beautiful, powerful, and immortal. They are the Families of the race of the Vampires, and they have gathered at the Castle Barant to discuss their fate. Here in a gothic netherworld, a murder has been committed that pits the Family's most powerful members against each other in a titanic struggle.

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Section 1
1
Section 2
13
Section 3
24
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About the author (1993)

Lucius Shepard was born in Lynchburg, Virginia in 1947. He wrote in many different genres including science fiction and fantasy, cyberpunk, magical realism, poetry, and non-fiction. He published his first short stories in 1983 and his first novel, Green Eyes, in 1984. His other works include Life During Wartime, The Jaguar Hunter, and Two Trains Running. He won several awards including the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1985, the Nebula Award for the novella R&R, the Hugo Award for the novella Barnacle Bill the Spacer, and the Shirley Jackson Award for the novella Vacancy. He died on March 18, 2014 at the age of 66.

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