Zothique (collection)


Zothique is a collection of fantasy short stories by Clark Ashton Smith, edited by Lin Carter. It was first published in paperback by Ballantine Books as the sixteenth volume of its Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in June 1970. It was the first themed collection of Smith's works assembled by Carter for the series. The stories were originally published in various fantasy magazines in the 1930s, notably Weird Tales.

Summary

The book collects one poem and all sixteen tales of the author's Zothique cycle, set on the Earth's last continent in a far distant future, with an introduction and map and epilogue by Carter.

Contents

The collection was reviewed by Charlie Brown in Locus no. 59, July 16, 1970, Glen Cook in Science Fiction Review, November 1970, Douglas Menville in Forgotten Fantasy, December 1970, Fritz Leiber in Fantastic, February 1971, L. Sprague de Camp in Amra v. 2, no. 54, April 1971, Gahan Wilson in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July 1971, Robert A. W. Lowndes in Bizarre Fantasy Tales no. 2, March 1971, and James Cawthorn and Michael Moorcock in Fantasy: The 100 Best Books.