Echoes of the Goddess
Echoes of the Goddess: Tales of Terror and Wonder From the End of Time is a collection of fantasy short stories by American writer 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.[1]
Summary
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. 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.
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)
Reception
The collection was reviewed by John R. Fultz at blackgate.com, Feb. 20, 2013,[2] and Richard A. Lupoff in Locus no. 629, June 2013.[1]
Notes
- ^ a b Echoes of the Goddess title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- ^ Fultz, John R. "Echoes of the Goddess: Schweitzer's Newest Classic," Feb. 20, 2013.
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- The Shattered Goddess (1983)
- The White Isle (1989)
- The Mask of the Sorcerer (1995)
- The Dragon House (2018)
- We Are All Legends (1981)
- Tom O'Bedlam's Night Out (1985)
- Transients (1993)
- Refugees from an Imaginary Country (1999)
- Necromancies and Netherworlds (1999)
- Nightscapes (2000)
- The Great World and the Small (2001)
- Sekenre: The Book of the Sorcerer (2004)
- Living with the Dead (2008)
- Deadly Things (2011)
- Echoes of the Goddess (2013)
- The Emperor of the Ancient Word (2013)
- The Darrell Schweitzer Megapack (2013)
- Awaiting Strange Gods (2015)
- The Mysteries of the Faceless King (2020)
- The Last Heretic (2020)
- The Children of Chorazin and Other Strange Denizens (2023)
- Tales from the Spaceport Bar (1987)
- Another Round at the Spaceport Bar (1989)
- The Thomas Ligotti Reader (2003)
- The Neil Gaiman Reader (2006)
- The Secret History of Vampires (2007)
- The Robert E. Howard Reader (2010)
- Full Moon City (2010)
- Cthulhu's Reign (2010)
- That is Not Dead (2015)
- Tales from the Miskatonic University Library (2017)
- Mountains of Madness Revealed (2019)
- Shadows Out of Time (2023)
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