SIMON BROWN

Diomedes, Paris, Helen, Achilles, Agamemnon, Cassandra and Odysseus all feature in this collection of Simon Brown's acclaimed "Troy stories". Since the early 1980s Simon Brown has engaged readers with a series of alternate takes on the Trojan War. "Love and Paris", "Imagining Ajax", "Why My Wife Left Me, and Other Stories, by Diomedes" and the brilliant "The Masque of Agamemnon" are collected here for the first time, alongside lesser known tales and the original novella, "The cup of Nestor".

Introduction by Garth Nix

Contents

• The mark of Thetis
• The dreaming seas beneath Cassandra
• The dissections of Machaon
• The masque of Agamemnon (with Sean Williams)
• Love and Paris
• Why my wife left me, and other stories, by Diomedes
• A new song for Odysseus
• The cup of Nestor
• Imagining Ajax
• Afterword - Imagining Troy by Russell B. Farr
• Appendix - The return of Ideomeneus

Reviews

• "The project that I'm most looking forward to is the re-animation of Ticonderoga Publications and the publication of Troy by Simon Brown. That will be cool."
  - Jonathan Strahan, Notes from Coode Street
• "Just wanted to say how much I enjoyed the anthology. I confess that I hadn't read many of the stories before, but I am certain that reading them in this sequence added to the experience. And it is such a gorgeous book! In any case, multifarious congratulations. And "The Cup of Nestor" was possibly the best thing in there."
  - Kyla Ward
• "Troy is a beautiful book ... Ticonderoga Publications are definitely up there with some of the better overseas indie press outfits as far as style, design and all that other shiny stuff goes." "The result is a marvellous, elegant collage of stories that dip in and out of the Trojan cycle like a blood-soaked fountain pen, leaving the reader with a powerful impression of Troy (both the city and the myth) as a symbol of the fragmentary nature of ancient mythology."
  - Tansy Rayner Roberts Australian SpecFic in Focus

 

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