Minions of the Moon

This book started out as a novella which won the World Fantasy Award in 1998. Bowes expanded it into a full novel and it won the Lambda Literary Award for SF/Fantasy/Horror in 2000. It's sort of an urban fantasy about a man with a shadow self or doppelganger. It was a strange story. I felt like the author couldn't make up his mind on whether the doppelganger was real or imaginary. At times nobody saw it; other times people would report to Kevin, the main character, that they thought they had seen him somewhere where Kevin wasn't. Other times people saw the two of them together. It was very confusing, and although I have a good suspension of disbelief, I couldn't tell what was real outside of Kevin's frame of reference and what wasn't. Maybe that was the point.

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