Vintage Treasures: Nifft the Lean by Michael Shea
Michael Shea is one of the most fascinating characters in the genre. Consider this biographical tidbit from his Wikipedia entry: At a hotel in Juneau, Alaska, Shea chanced on a battered book from the lobby shelves, The Eyes of the Overworld by Jack Vance (1966). Four years later, after a brief first marriage and one year hitch-hiking through France and Spain, he wrote a novel in homage to Vance, who graciously declined to share the advance… It was Shea’s first…