Bright Segments: The Complete Short Fiction

For the first time ever, the complete short fiction of literary legend James Sallis is collected in one gorgeous
volume—a must-have holiday gift for the crime, mystery, or speculative fiction fan in your life.
Published over the six decades of Sallis's storied career, the complete collection contains 154 stories, 12 of
which are exclusive to this volume.
By all accounts, James Sallis is a multi-hyphenate, once-in-a-generation thinker—an innovator of multiple
genres, styles, and forms. Lit Hub has compared Sallis to contemporaries Don DeLillo and Thomas Pynchon.
While he is revered as a literary godfather of the crime and noir genres—his contributions including such works
Drive, now a cult-classic film, and his Lew Griffin series—he is equally respected among speculative
fiction practitioners for the work he began publishing in science fiction magazines in the 1960s. He is recognized
for his uncompromising craft, and for the poetry, philosophy, and empathy he imbues in each glittering moment.
Now, for the first time ever, Sallis’s complete short fiction is collected in one gorgeous volume—a must-have
library addition for readers of speculative fiction and noir, and for writers of all genres.