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I am a longtime fan of Lucius Shepard's work but not of Viator. The long drawn out sentences, although perhaps an attempt at atmosphere and tone, do more to cause them to lose meaning than create mood. Too often, the reader is asked to reread a sentence to stay linear to the story. This choice in style is too against the grain of quality writing for me to swallow. As much as I would love to give Viator a solid review, the writing structure is overly tiresome and self-indulgent. It reads much like the absorbed work of undergraduate romantics than that of Shepard's finer work.

Those familiar with Shepard will likely find some enjoyment here, but I suggest that those unfamiliar start elsewhere.

Product details Hardcover 356 pages Publisher PS Publishing; First edition (December 1, 2009) Language English ISBN-10 1848630352

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Viator Plus [jhc] Lucius Shepard 9781848630352 Books Reviews

VIATOR is a lovely outing, with some of Shepard's most luminous prose to date. The plot of the novel is reminiscent of Edgar Allan Poe's flawed masterpiece, "Arthur Gordon Pym," and like "Pym," VIATOR's ending is far from satisfying. But this ending accounts for only 14 or so of the book's 170 pages and in no way dims the lush and illuminant prose that precedes.

A gorgeous meditation on how the landscapes of the psyche, of madness, of love, of self-loathing, and--just perhaps--of other worlds can line up in precise moments of synchronicity and violence. One of the few true novels of the sublime to appear in some time mindful on every page that the purest wonder is always shot through with danger, doubt, and despair.
Lovely language coasts in long ribbons around a tale of haunting dreams and lonely lives. Five men, formerly homeless, all of Scandinavian descent, find themselves disturbingly bound to their new job. Manpower has sent them to Alaska to assess a grounded freighter for its salvage value. The men pursue this work in ways that Wilander, the latest to arrive, finds nonsensical -- cutting and storing away bits of the ship, inventing new words. The men are reticent, secretive, unwilling to leave the ship, so Wilander acts for them, travelling into town for supplies, where he meets the beautiful and compelling Arlene. But even as Wilander begins to remold his frustrated and directionless life together into what may be a new and stronger whole, his mind is drawn into the spell of Viator and her mysteries. Images appear in the ship's walls, mirroring those his companions have seen. Is the ship's prow moving forward through the forest to a new destiny, or is he losing his fragile hold on sanity? What has happened to the Viator? And if he casts off for the greatest adventure of his life, will he lose Arlene?
Lucius Shepard, Viator (Night Shade Books, 2004)

Lucius Shepard is one of America's most underrated writers by any standards. The man comes out with book after book of gorgeous prose and gets, for the most part, not a breath of press about it. Viator, his latest offering (but not for long; Shepard has two coming out in 2005), continues the trend both of wonderful writing and lack of anything even remotely resembling press coverage.

Thomas Wilander, homeless, rootless, and unstable (his own word), has been hired by a Manpower temp agency in Alaska to go out to a wrecked ship called Viator and head up a team of four other men in assessing the value of the wreckage as scrap. Wilander goes about his business, rarely seeing the four other men, and eventually striking up a relationship with the owner of the trading post in the nearest town, Kaliaska. The other man, all of whom have been on the ship longer than Wilander, have become absorbed in obsessions with various parts of the ship (one is fascinated with the formations of the rust, one with the ship's glass, etc). As time goes on, Wilander starts to feel the tug of the ship as well, and becomes absorbed in his own obsessions, while those around him become ever more fearful of his sanity.

The book has almost a Heart of Darkness feel to it, though granted the ship here is washed up on shore. Shepard's lush descriptions and deliberate pacing keep the reader always wondering what's just over the horizon, while simultaneously not wanting to leave whatever details Shepard is inking at the time. It's beautiful, beautiful prose, and it demands to be savored.

The book's only real letdown is the ending, as other reviewers have noted; the book jumps from Heart of Darkness to The X-Files a little too quickly, and it's likely to jar the unsuspecting reader. Still, there is a good deal to be liked here; this is Shepard doing what Shepard does best, and he does it very well indeed. *** ½
Viator Plus was the first collection I read from Lucius Shepard. I had heard good things about his fiction, so I was eager to read Viator Plus. I was positively surprised when I read it, because it turned to be quite a fascinating collection. I have to say that it was a bit difficult to categorize some of the stories in this collection, because they contained different elements, but in my opinion the stories ranged from mainstream fiction to speculative fiction.

Viator was without a doubt the best and most interesting story in this collection. It was a fantastic short novel about love, madness and strange happenings. Shepard's writing was elegant and his descriptions of the surroundings and the characters were surprisingly vivid and lush. The main character, Wilander, was an interesting and flawed man, who lived and worked aboard the ship called Viator. His relationship with the local woman, Arlene, was fascinating and thoroughly believable. Shepard wrote about difficult subjects (madness, sex etc.) exquisitely - to be honest, Wilander's slow descent into madness was handled amazingly well.

After reading Viator I can say that Lucius Shepard is a gifted writer, who deserves to be more popular. I liked his prose very much. This short story collection is definitely worth reading (if you like well written prose and interesting stories, you must read Viator Plus). I decided to give this collection four stars, because I liked all the stories.
This is a great book and Lucius Shepard's command of the language paints a picture of this world you will never forget.
I am a longtime fan of Lucius Shepard's work but not of Viator. The long drawn out sentences, although perhaps an attempt at atmosphere and tone, do more to cause them to lose meaning than create mood. Too often, the reader is asked to reread a sentence to stay linear to the story. This choice in style is too against the grain of quality writing for me to swallow. As much as I would love to give Viator a solid review, the writing structure is overly tiresome and self-indulgent. It reads much like the absorbed work of undergraduate romantics than that of Shepard's finer work.

Those familiar with Shepard will likely find some enjoyment here, but I suggest that those unfamiliar start elsewhere.