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    Echoes of the Goddess: Tales of Terror and Wonder from the End of Time
    Echoes of the Goddess: Tales of Terror and Wonder from the End of Time
    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

    By Darrell Schweitzer

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    "[This] novel has immense power in its climax," 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 "in the time of the death of the Goddess." 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." Great fantasy reading, now collected into book form for the first time!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWildside Press
    Release dateJan 17, 2013
    ISBN9781434447074
    Echoes of the Goddess: Tales of Terror and Wonder from the End of Time
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    Darrell Schweitzer

    Darrell Schweitzer is the award-winning author of numerous works of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. He is also a prolific writer of literary criticism and editor of collections of essays on various writers within these genres.  

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