Echoes of the Goddess

<p>[This] novel has immense power in its climax said <em>The Encyclopedia of Fantasy</em> 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 in the time of the death of the Goddess. </p><p>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 today's supreme stylist. </p><p>Great fantasy reading now collected into book form for the first time!</p>