Publisher's Synopsis
Half of the stories are from the Book of Lazarus - a linked cycle of fantasy stories revolving around the eponymous immortal, who has himself acquired the gift (or curse) of Resurrection, and his crop of resurrected, a faintly luminous cometary tail across the dark pages of history, known as the Assembly of the Dead. The other half of the stories are real science fiction - with fully-realized characters, and realistic science.