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Kalimantan

Lucius Shepard

First published 1990
Type Short Fiction
Length Novella

Synopsis

<b>From the front flap of the St. Martin's Press first American edition:</b> "Curtis MacKinnon is a would-be drifter, a man possessed of unlikely dreams and bad-ass ambitions. Abandoning the fraudulent tropics of Florida for the authentic jungles of Borneo, he fills the role of expatriate rogue well - so well that his delusions and charm make him a genuinely dangerous man, and he is soon forced to take refuge from his troubles in Kalimantan. <p>This removal from civilization, however, does little to reform him. In hiding, he experiments with the local drug <i>seribu aso</i>, once used by Punan Dayak, a lost race known as "the dream wanderers." The hallucinogen alters not only the perception of the user, but the geography of reality itself. MacKinnon, the world-weary expatriate, believes he has passed through enough geography himself that he can control the drug's powers. He can't, however, control the protective spirits of Kalimantan, be they of this world or not."

Awards

YearAwardCategoryStatus
1991 Locus Poll Award Best Novella Nominee/Finalist
1993 Nebula Award Novel Nominee/Finalist

Publications (8)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1990 Kalimantan Legend / Century Collection
August 1990 Kalimantan Legend / Century Chapbook
September 1990 Kalimantan Legend / Century Chapbook
September 1990 Kalimantan Legend / Century Chapbook 9
January 1992 Kalimantan St. Martin's Press Chapbook 9
June 1993 Kalimantan Tor Collection 1
November 2012 Kalimantan Gateway / Orion Chapbook
December 2024 Crows and Silences Subterranean Press Omnibus 15