| Echoes of the Goddess: Tales of Terror and Wonder From the End of Time | |
| Author: | Darrell Schweitzer |
| Illustrator: | Stephen Fabian |
| Cover Artist: | Stephen Fabian |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | Wildside Press |
| Release Date: | 2013 |
| Media Type: | Print (paperback) |
| Pages: | 272 |
| Isbn: | 978-1-4794-0023-2 |
| Oclc: | 830524360 |
| Followed By: | The Shattered 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.
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.
The collection was reviewed by John R. Fultz at blackgate.com, Feb. 20, 2013,[1] and Richard A. Lupoff in Locus no. 629, June 2013.