REVIEWS

“World Fantasy Award–winner Shea takes his 1987 short story of the same name and turns it into a trilogy of which this is the first cataclysmic volume….SF fans and thriller readers alike will go for the furious action on the ground and in the air, with carnage galore, hairbreadth escapes, and heroic sacrifices.”—Publishers Weekly

"Michael Shea's The Extra offers intensity, great characters, action,satire that may well be prescient, fine writing, and intelligent nonstop entertainment. What do you want, dammit? This is the one!"—John Shirley, author of Bleak History

“Shea offers a combination of gifts unique to him, I think: an innately edgy feel to the writing; a descriptive ability comparable to that of Jack Vance; a wild, blazing imaginative capacity; and a sense of humor permanently set to what rifleman used to call "rock and roll." The Extra starts out at a dead run and accelerates from there, effortlessly wrapping the reader into its tale of gone-to-hell L.A. and a little bank of gutsy starvelings with blood on their hands.”—Peter Straub

"The Extra packs more violence, hilarity and speed-freak action in its throw-away asides than most science fiction books build an entire story around. This is a hot ticket.”—Patton Oswalt, Actor and Comedian

MICHAEL SHEA has been nominated for the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award twice. He has won the World Fantasy Award, the International Horror Guild Award, and the Bram Stoker Award.



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