Darker Echoes

Some short stories leave you exhilarated, invigorated, ready to face the world with an optimistic outlook. These are not those short stories. In Darker Echoes, Robert John Burke has collected fifteen of his most brooding and cerebral science fiction and fantasy stories into one book. From a man brought back to life for just three days, to troubled spirits battling eternally over the resolution of the Civil War, to a man sentenced to die on an alien world for crimes not his own, the stories in Darker Echoes are intended to unsettle readers and get them thinking. Containing older stories now out of print as well as a substantial amount of new material, Darker Echoes runs the gamut from the future to the past, from hope to despair, from science to philosophy, and tells a number of unforgettable tales in the process...