The Last Heretic

"A long-deserved tribute to his copious and entertaining career as a storyteller," is how Paul Di Filippo describes this second volume of our Darrell Schweitzer retrospective in his introduction. "We might first make the observation that Darrell hews to time-tested narrative strategies: classical, demonstrably effective modes of story-telling learned at the feet of the masters. . . This straight-line approach does not rule out suspense, trickery, or depth of portraiture. Quite to the contra...