Short Reviews: Lucius Shepard

"Radiant Greeen Star" [permanent link]. A story set in the near future in a kind of circus somewhere in Vietnam. A circus boy learns about his heritage via a message from his dead mother who had hidden him away in the circus from his power lusting father. His task is to reclaim his heritage by killing his father. But can he do so, protected as he is by an augmented security guard? Perhaps he can, with the help of the niece of the circus owner and a cast of strange circus people.
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