Troy

Simon Brown

 ISBN 0-9586856-6-5

 192 pages
 Numbered Edition (30 copies) sold out
 Limited Edition (500 copies) Aus$21.50

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".

Ten stories. One legend.

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Collection features an introduction by Garth Nix, author of Sabriel, Abhorsen and the Keys to the Kingdom series.

Contents
Introduction — by Garth Nix
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 — original to collection
Imagining Ajax
Afterword — Imagining Troy by Russell B. Farr
Appendix — The return of Ideomeneus

This collection is available in two formats: a limited, numbered edition signed by all contributors (30 only) and a limited edition (470 copies). Both editions may be ordered online at Australian Speculative Fiction for immediate shipment.

The collection is also available online at Australian Online Bookshop.

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Troy - 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

SIMON BROWN has written six novels: Privateer, Winter, the three books of the Keys of Power trilogy - Inheritance, Fire and Sword and Sovereign - and Born of Empire, the first in a new trilogy called the Chronicles of Kydan. The second book in the chronicles, Rival's Son, is due out from PanMacmillan this year. A collection of his short stories, Cannibals of the fine light, was released by Ticonderoga Publications in 1998. Simon lives with his wife Alison and two children, Edlyn and Fynn, in Mollymook, New South Wales.

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