The Disciples of Apollo
THE DISCIPLES OF APOLLO collects Eric Brown's finest short fiction, from the contemporary title story, in which the victims of a terrible malaise retreat to a sequestered island to see out their final months, to the far future of Dark Calvary, set on the dying world of Tartarus Major whose sun is about to go nova. Whether set is space of the future, or Earth of the here and now, Brown's stories are imbued with a passionate concern for the human condition and the need to deliver compelling narratives. The Children of Winter and Hunting the Slarque won the BSFA Award for the best short story of 1999 and 2001 respectively, while Zarla's World is original to the collection.
Here's the complete line-up:
Introduction by Eric Brown
The Time-Lapsed Man
The Disciples of Apollo
The Death of Cassandra Quebec
Hunting the Slarque
Dark Calvary
Steps Along the Way
The Miracle at Kallithéa
The Children of Winter
The Kéthani Inheritance
Ulla, Ulla
Thursday s Child
Life Beyond
Salvage Rites
Laying the Ghost
Zarla's World
Eric Brown
Eric Brown began writing when he was fifteen years and sold his first short story to Interzone in 1986. He has won the British Science Fiction Award twice for his short stories, and his novel Helix Wars was shortlisted for the Philip K. Dick award. He has published sixty books, and his latest include the crime novel Murder Take Three, and the short story collection Microcosms, with Tony Ballantyne. He has also written a dozen books for children and over a hundred and forty short stories. He writes a regular science fiction review column for the Guardian newspaper and lives in Cockburnspath, Scotland.
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