Tales of the Final Fall of Man

Tales of the Final Fall of Man  is the name of the science-fiction short story / novella collection expanding on the characters, settings, stories and histories in The Final Fall of Man. The anthologies and their stories are as follows:


 * 1) Deadshepherd: Sisterhood, Black Honey Wings, Malachi's Gambit, Ghåål's Ark


 * 1) The First Feast: The Last Warship, Will, Big Gravity, The First Feast


 * 1) Panda Egg, or, The Çromicles of Theria: Fallen Angel, Black Lotus, Thick of Mind, The Green War, Bookwyrm, Devils and Such, Predericon in Darkness, 500,000,000 BC, The Still-Beating Heart, 1,947, Mastelvale, Panda Egg


 * 1) Untitled Tales #4 (to be released)


 * 1) Untitled Tales #5 (to be released)



"I would up having to finish this anthology rather more quickly than I’d planned, but in a sense it’s good to get it out there. I really wasn’t going to do much more with it.

"My original plan, shining and wonderful as it was, had been sixteen short stories in a nice collection, to round out The Final Fall of Man series and tell some of the stories that had been too big for sidenotes in the main narrative. Once I’d written Sisterhood and added Black Honey Wings and was halfway through Malachi’s Gambit, I realised that sixteen stories of this length was going to make a book way too big for my publishers to handle, at least in paper form.

''"And so I decided on four stories in a book, and a probable four-part anthology for the completed sixteen stories." - Andrew Hindle on Deadshepherd, demonstrating what a rush he was in by writing "would" instead of "wound", also not realising there would be five parts to the anthology, maybe more''

"The general idea of my grand Disney-Marvel-esque Phase Plan is that the straight-up space opera we saw in Phase One ended up opening out into a much wider sci-fi / fantasy urverse for Phase Two. And where Eejit threw the reader into Phase One with a perhaps over-challenging and wordy story, Bad Cow did the same for Phase Two with an admittedly merciless world-building exercise that tried to answer the question “how did we get from here, to there?”" - Andrew Hindle rambling about The First Feast

"This anthology has been something of an artsy-fartsy experimental thing for me, and I want to thank you for reading it. I mean, even more so than I appreciate you reading my other books, I appreciate you reading this one.

"And I should apologise, belatedly, in the very likely event these stories have come across as fragmentary, random, and deeply confusing. This is at least partially intentional. They’re all set in the same expanded urverse, albeit not technically in the galaxy of The Final Fall of Man'', so the title may have been misleading. Even so, they do all have important parts to play in the overall narrative." - Andrew Hindle's continued rambling about ''Panda Egg