Trisha Shetty (Editor)

Echoes of the Goddess

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Illustrator
  
Stephen Fabian

Country
  
United States

Publication date
  
2013

Originally published
  
2013

Genre
  
Fantasy

OCLC
  
830524360

Cover artist
  
Stephen Fabian

Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Paperback)

Author
  
Darrell Schweitzer

Publisher
  
Wildside Press

Echoes of the Goddess t2gstaticcomimagesqtbnANd9GcT7MO1FHa5lcC98H0

Similar
  
Darrell Schweitzer books, Fantasy books

Echoes of the Goddess: Tales of Terror and Wonder From the End of Time is a collection of fantasy short stories written by Darrell Schweitzer, a prequel to his novel The Shattered Goddess (1983). The book is illustrated with a cover and frontispiece by Stephen Fabian. It was first published as a trade paperback by Wildside Press in February 2013.

Contents

The collection consists of a cycle of eleven stories originally published from 1982-1991 in various fantasy and science fiction magazines, together with a prologue original to the collection. Some of the stories were revised for book publication.

Contents

  • "Prologue"
  • "The Stones Would Weep" (from Fantasy Tales v. 6, no. 12, Win. 1983)
  • "The Story of a Dadar" (from Amazing Science Fiction Stories v. 56, no. 1, Jun. 1982)
  • "The Diminishing Man" (from Fantasy Book, v. 3, no. 3-4, Sep.-Dec. 1984)
  • "A Lantern Maker of Ai Hanlo" (from Amazing Stories v. 58, no. 2, Jul. 1984)
  • "Holy Fire" (from Weirdbook 17, 1983)
  • "The Stolen Heart" (from Weirdbook 26, Aut. 1991)
  • "Immortal Bells" (from Weirdbook 18, 1983)
  • "Between Night and Morning" (from Weirdbook 20, Spr. 1985)
  • "The Shaper of Animals" (from Amazing Stories v. 62, no. 2, Jul. 1987)
  • "Three Brothers" (from Weirdbook 23/24, 1988)
  • "Coming of Age in the City of the Goddess" (from Fantasy Book v. 4, no. 2, Jun. 1985)

    • Plot

    The stories follow the fortunes of various characters living on a magic-ridden far future Earth in the age of chaotic miracles between the death of the world's latest divinity, the Goddess, and the birth of a new one. Among the protagonists are a wizard's shadow striving to become human, two fratricidal brother sorcerers engaged in a feud lasting centuries, a musician who becomes lord of death, a visionary boy priest, and a witch in love with a god.

    References

    Echoes of the Goddess Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


    Similar Topics