The Brothers (novella) (original) (raw)

"The Brothers" is a fantasy novella by American writer C. J. Cherryh. It was first published by DAW Books in 1986 in Visible Light, a collection of her short fiction, and was republished in 2004 in The Collected Short Fiction of C. J. Cherryh. The story draws on Celtic mythology and includes the realm of Faery and the fay race of the Sídhe. Cherryh's 1994 novel Faery in Shadow is a sequel to this novella. A minor revision of "The Brothers" and a major rewrite of Faery in Shadow was self-published by Cherryh as an e-book in Faery Moon in December 2009.