This double volume from Subterranean Press offers a pair of novellas by Lucius Shepard.

In Vacancy, a washed-up actor, a mysterious motel, and a Malaysian “woman of power” form the central elements in an account of a rootless man forced to confront the impossible – but very real – demons of his past.

Ariel transmutes traditional SF concepts – alien incursions, the mysteries of quantum physics – into a reflection on love and obsession, memory and identity, and the archetypal conflict that stands at the heart of an infinite multitude of worlds.