Lucius Shepard 
Viator Plus 

The stories gathered here conduct the reader from the wastelands of the near future to the zoned-out bacchanals of Hollywood, from the fevered bordellos of Central America to the hallucinated revels of redneck country, from the broken hears of wandering loners to alluring fantasy realms just beyond the threshold of perception. And when the journey is over, eternal contrasts — of man and woman, bosses and workers, responsibility and escape, conformity and freedom — stand in more powerful definition than ever before…