Fantasy and Science Fiction March 2001 Fantasy and Science Fiction March 2001 Eternity. A lengthy feature novella as part of a special Lucius Shepard issue. Katherine Dunn provides an introductory biography and the story is followed by a bibliography.
Eternity is a dense, powerful story set in near-contempory Moscow.
Viktor Chemayev enters the eponymous nightclub, within grasp of his chance to flee the city and the country, with his lover, a hostess in the club. To do so, Chemayev has to meet the owner of the club, Yuri Lebedev, who is rumoured to be far more than the man he once was. Chemayev's night in the club is a pyrotechnic, disturbing voyage which threatens his very soul, a jungle quiet different from those South American jungles in which Shepard has previously probed the deep, dark recesses of the soul. But one that is at the same time quite similar. Top class stuff.