I’m having lots of fun reading Echoes of the Goddess, Tales of Terror and Wonder from the End of Time, a great collection of stories by Darrell Schweitzer, set in the same universe of the author’s popular and highly respected 1982 novel, The Shattered Goddess.
The eleven stories in the volume – which is available as an inexpensive ebook through Amazon – are set in a distant, decadent future, after a catastrophe of theological proportions (narrated in the novel mentioned above).
The setting and the mood recall Clark Ashton Smith’s Zothique and Jack Vance’s Dying Earth – the so called dying earth/end of times subgenre.
Now I am particularly interested in this subgenre, and I’m highly impressed by Schweitzer’s prose – the quality of the storytelling is such, that even a deceivingly light plot becomes multi-layered and highly satisfactory.
There is style and substance.
This is fantasy fiction, but a style of fantasy fiction and swords & sorcery that goes back to the roots of the genre, back to the pages of Weird Tales.
And yet, it is not just a nostalgia trip or a form of narrative archaeology.
The book was released by Wildside Press in february 2013, and is highly recommended.
Karavansara 
29 April 2013 at 19:49
It look interesting, very interesting
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29 April 2013 at 20:03
It is!
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30 April 2013 at 00:17
You should read the book of the new sun if you are interested in the dying earth subgenre (if you havn’t already).
I’m gonna check this out. looks good.
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30 April 2013 at 00:53
I’m well acquainted with Wolfe’s work – year in, year out, I re-read the Book of the New Sun… and I always find something new and exciting.
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