BOOKS - Echoes of the Goddess: Tales of Terror and Wonder from the End of Time
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Echoes of the Goddess: Tales of Terror and Wonder from the End of Time
Author: Darrell Schweitzer
Year: January 17, 2013
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 1.2 MB
Year: January 17, 2013
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 1.2 MB
and "[This] novel has immense power in its climax, and " said The Encyclopedia of Fantasy about Darrell Schweitzer's 1982 novel, THE SHATTERED GODDESS. Now, at last, here's the companion volume to that work, a cycle of eleven stories set and "in the time of the death of the Goddess. and " This is an Earth of the far future, when the planet has declined into chaos, and darkness looms at the end of human history. Here you'll meet...a dadar, a wizard's shadow attempting to become a man; two sorcerers grotesquely transformed by their fratricidal hatred; a musician who becomes the lord of death; a boy-priest consumed by divine visions; and a witch who loves a god, among many others. Here's strangeness, wonder, and terror in the tradition of Clark Ashton Smith's Xothique or Jack Vance's The Dying Earth. Schweitzer is a master fantasist, whom anthologist Mike Ashley once called and "today's supreme stylist. and " Great fantasy reading, now collected into book form for the first time!
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