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Michael Shea (b. 1946) was born in Los Angeles and now makes his home in Northern California. After discovering a battered copy of Jack Vance’s The Eyes of the Overworld in a cheap hotel in Juneau, Alaska, he wrote a sequel to the book as a homage. Shea then wrote to Vance, asking if he would help get the sequel published and split the take. Although Vance graciously declined the offer, or to even read another author’s addendum to a character he might himself wish to take up again, he did invite Shea to get the work published on his own. The result was A Quest for Simbilis (1974). In the years since, Shea’s sword and sorcery work has retained Vance’s stylistic stamp, especially his love of lexicon, but has also reflected the more horrific slant of Clark Ashton Smith’s work. He has published more than two dozen stories and novellas, along with such books as the World Fantasy Award-winning Nifft the Lean, In Yana the Touch of Undying, The Color Out of Time (a sequel to H. P. Lovecraft’s "The Colour Out of Space"), Fat Face, The Mines of Behemoth, The A’rak and the World Fantasy Award-nominated collection Polyphemus. Also a finalist for the Hugo Award and Nebula Award, the author is currently developing, with an Athenian collaborator, a film version of his novella “The Autopsy”.