Life During Wartime

The acclaimed novel of near-future warfare based on the Nebula Award-winning novella, 'R&R'.

Shortlisted for both the Philip K. Dick Award 1988 and the Arthur C. Clarke Award 1989

"Richly peopled, highly literate, and brilliantly drawn ... one of the finest science fiction writers of all time" - Science Fiction Chronicle

"Seminal. Like a book on Vietnam, but science fiction. Amazing!" - Amazon Reviewer, 5 stars

"The prose astounds. Lucius Shepard was a genius!" - Goodreads Reviewer, 5 stars

In the jungles of Guatemala, David Mingolla is struggling to survive among rotting vegetation and his despairing, drug-pumped fellow foot soldiers. He knows he is nothing but an expendable pawn in an endless, amoral war.

During some well-earned R&R he meets Debora - an enigmatic young woman who may be working for the enemy. David now finds himself a pawn of secret, ruthless forces lusting for world domination, and stumbles into a deadly psychic conflict where the mind is the greatest weapon.