A collection of 31 short fantasy stories from the last years of the nineteenth century to the present, illustrating the development of the genre and a range of individual talents.
The gods gave the Swords of Power to humankind for a game-but the swords can kill gods as well as mortals. As the gods begin to die, the mortals find that a life is not what it seemed...
Thousands of years after a war so terrible that it changed the very laws of nature, gods and giants once again stalk the earth and play their games with human lives....
