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Book Synopsis Gilgamesh in the Outback by : Robert Silverberg
Download or read book Gilgamesh in the Outback written by Robert Silverberg and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2020-01-03 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Gilgamesh in the Outback" is a science fiction novella by American writer Robert Silverberg, a sequel to his novel Gilgamesh the King[ as well as a story in the shared universe series "Heroes in Hell." It won the Hugo Award for Best Novella in 1987 and was also nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novella in 1986. Real-life writers Robert E. Howard and H. P. Lovecraft feature as characters in the novella.
Download or read book Gilgamesh written by Joan London and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This rich, spare, and evocative debut novel of encounters and escapes, of friendship and love, of loss and acceptance, marks the emergence of a world-class talent.
Book Synopsis Gilgamesh all'inferno by : Robert Silverberg
Download or read book Gilgamesh all'inferno written by Robert Silverberg and published by Delos Digital srl. This book was released on 2022-11-08 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fantascienza - romanzo breve (67 pagine) - Nalla sua ultima avventura Gilgamesh deve fare affidamento su due alleati molto particolari: Robert E. Howard e H.P. Lovecraft. PREMIO HUGO 1987 Anche gli eroi, i condottieri (e gli scrittori) prima o poi muoiono. Ma la loro storia non finisce lì: continua, all'Inferno. L'Inferno: un luogo senza tempo dove Giulio Cesare gira su una jeep militare, con il mitra a tracolla e due pistole ai fianchi. Dove Robert E. Howard, il creatore di Conan, incontra H.P. Lovecraft e scopre qualcosa di sé stesso. E dove entrambi incontrano il primo eroe epico dell'umanità, il sumero Gilgamesh (che Howard scambia per Conan) insieme al quale dovranno compiere un'avventura per salvare, ancora una volta, il suo amico fraterno Enkidu. Robert Silverberg è unanimemente riconosciuto come uno dei massimi autori della fantascienza contemporanea. Nato a Brooklyn (New York) il 15 gennaio del 1935, iniziò a scrivere SF d'avventura negli anni '50, diventando ben presto uno degli autori più famosi e prolifici e ottenendo il premio Hugo come autore più promettente del 1956. Durante la metà degli anni sessanta però, spinto dal desiderio di dimostrare a se stesso e agli altri le sue capacità di vero scrittore, e di essere in grado di realizzare anche opere di qualità, Silverberg impresse una svolta decisiva allo stile dei suoi romanzi, iniziando a produrre opere di maggiore impegno umano e letterario. Tra gli scritti più importanti di questo secondo periodo ricordiamo Ali della notte (con cui vinse anche un premio Hugo), Brivido crudele, Torre di cristallo, forse la sua opera più completa e riuscita, Vertice di immortali, Paradosso dei passato, e Mutazione, che si inserisce in quel gruppo di romanzi dedicati da Silverberg alla descrizione e all'esplorazione dell'esperienza mistica della trascendenza.
Download or read book Gilgamesh written by Joan London and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteen-year-old Edith and her son leave rural Australia for Soviet Armenia in 1939, inspired by an earlier visit from her English cousin and his Armenian friend and their talk of "Gilgamesh," only to be trapped by World War II.
Book Synopsis To the Land of the Living by : Robert Silverberg
Download or read book To the Land of the Living written by Robert Silverberg and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-11-14 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if there were an Afterworld? Not Heaven or Hell in the conventional sense, but a place where everyone who has ever lived reawakens when they die, to live again and die again and live again, seemingly forever. This is the premise of Robert Silverberg's brilliantly inventive new fantasy novel. The central character is the legendary warrior-king Gilgamesh, who has been in the Afterworld longer than almost anyone else save the Hairy Men from before the Flood, and who in recent centuries (insofar as you can count time) has seen it change beyond recognition, as the newly dead from industrial times import their machinery, their weaponry and their attitudes. Gilgamesh's adventures in the course of the novel take him to the Afterworld realms of other quasi-mythical figures like Prester John and Simon Magus, bring him into contact with such figures from more recent history as Walter Ralegh and Pablo Ruiz (known to some as Picasso), and eventually send him in search of a gateway which is rumoured to exist somewhere in the land of the dead - a gateway which leads back to the land of the living.
Download or read book The Outback Within written by Mark Byrne and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is it about the Australian outback? For nearly two centuries, narratives of outback journeys have been suffused with the aura of death. Why? It is not just that the desert is big, dry, hot and apparently empty. The outback is Australia’s “mythological crucible,” and journeys there have become rites of passage. It is where settler Australians go to die and perhaps be reborn. This book explores the landscape of this evolving national mythology. It argues that a more conscious engagement with the process of symbolic death and rebirth is needed for Australians to enter into a deeper understanding of themselves and their relationship to the land and its Indigenous people.
Book Synopsis The Iron Chancellor by : Robert Silverberg
Download or read book The Iron Chancellor written by Robert Silverberg and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A robot controls a family’s diet with disturbing exactitude in this 1958 novella by the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author—with a new forward. Celebrated author Robert Silverberg was twenty-two years old when he wrote The Iron Chancellor, his second contribution to the pioneering science fiction magazine Galexy. It tells the story of a man who purchases a robot to help himself and his family lose weight. The scheme goes awry as the robot assumes totalitarian control over the household. This early work demonstrates Silverberg’s prodigious talent as well as his influences, such as Henry Kuttner’s Gallegher stories and Robert Sheckley’s AAA Ace Series. Fans of Silverberg’s renowned novels, such as Sailing to Byzantium and Gilgamesh in the Outback, will enjoy this early work by the SFWA Grand Master.
Book Synopsis Reflections and Refractions by : Robert Silverberg
Download or read book Reflections and Refractions written by Robert Silverberg and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2013-11-28 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly twenty years ago Robert Silverberg began writing a monthly column of opinion and commentary, for Galileo Magazine, Amazing Stories, and then for Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. Now he has chosen the liveliest and most relevant of his hundreds of magazine columns for the present collection. They constitute a vivid chronicle of events both in science fiction and the world in general over the past two decades. Robert Silverberg is one of the great veterans of fantasy and science fiction. During the course of a career that has now stretched across more than forty years, he has written dozens of novels and hundreds of short stories, many of them considered classics of the genre. He has won more major award nominations than any other writer in his field, and no less than nine Hugo and Nebula awards, the key s-f/fantasy trophies. His books have been translated into some eighteen languages and his short stories have appeared in every science-fiction and fantasy magazine in the world, as well as in Omni, Playboy, and Penthouse.
Book Synopsis Around the Continuum by : Robert Silverberg
Download or read book Around the Continuum written by Robert Silverberg and published by Wonder Publishing Group. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gilgamesh in the Outback. In this Hugo Award winning novella, Ancient Sumerian king Gilgamesh found himself in a Hell not so very different from the kingdom in which he came. Faced with nothing much to do for eternity, he continues as a warrior in the eternity of hell. Gilgamesh's conservatism and scorn for the modern technologies drove a wedge between him and his closest friend, Enkidu. Gilgamesh joins forces with otherdenizens of hell, including fantastic pulp writers H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard, to foil a plot of Queen Elizabeth's to assemble a fortress at the exit of Hell. "Gilgamesh" is not the only highly-acclaimed master work included within. The other four stories were nominated for multiple major SF awards-and highlight the author's mastery of the language and his capacity to engage the reader fully in worlds of his own making. Included in this collection are such classic tales: as Sundance, Shwartz Between the Galaxies, Gianni, and In Entropy's Jaws.
Download or read book Babylonian Mythology written by Don Nardo and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2012-09-07 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume looks at Babylonian Mythology, drawing connections between ancient Babylonian culture and its myths, explaining how the beliefs, values, and experiences of that culture are represented in its treasured stories. Readers are treated to a map of ancient Mesopotamia, a family tree of the major gods, a table of major characters with name pronunciations with brief descriptions, sidebars, and fact boxes.
Download or read book Epoch written by Roger Elwood and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Middle of Nowhere by : Geraldine McCaughrean
Download or read book The Middle of Nowhere written by Geraldine McCaughrean and published by Usborne Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-08-08 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her mother dies from a snake bite, Comity's life in the Australian outback changes for ever. With her father lost in his grief, Comity makes friends with Fred, the Aboriginal yard boy. But then the evil Quartz Hogg arrives, who delights in playing cruel games. And when he sets his murderous sights on Fred, it's up to Comity to stop him. A gripping tale that builds to an explosive climax from much-loved storyteller, Geraldine McCaughrean.
Book Synopsis The Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic by : A. R. George
Download or read book The Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic written by A. R. George and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Babylonian Gilgamesh epic is the oldest long poem in the world, with a history going back four thousand years. It tells the fascinating and moving story of Gilgamesh's heroic deeds and lonely quest for immortality. This book collects for the first time all the known sources in the original cuneiform, including many fragments never published before. The author's personal study of every available fragment has produced a definitive edition and translation, complete with comprehensive introductory chapters that place the poem and its hero in context."--Publisher's description.
Book Synopsis The Prestimion Trilogy by : Robert Silverberg
Download or read book The Prestimion Trilogy written by Robert Silverberg and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 1607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The epic sci-fi fantasy Majipoor Cycle continues with the saga of Lord Prestimion, whose rise to power is beset by war and madness. Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author Robert Silverberg returns to the richly imagined world of Majipoor. Collected here in one volume is the complete Prestimion Trilogy, set hundreds of years before the events of the first three novels. In Sorcerers of Majipoor, a peaceful transfer of power is threatened by a cunning rival to the throne. In Lord Prestimion, peace returns to Majipoor, but at a terrible price. And in King of Dreams, Prestimion prepares to ascend to the role of Pontifax as a plague of nightmares spreads across the planet.
Download or read book Gilgamesh written by Louise M. Pryke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gilgamesh focuses on the eponymous hero of the world’s oldest epic and his legendary adventures. However, it also goes further and examines the significance of the story’s Ancient Near Eastern context, and what it tells us about notions of kingship, animality, and the natures of mortality and immortality. In this volume, Louise M. Pryke provides a unique perspective to consider many foundational aspects of Mesopotamian life, such as the significance of love and family, the conceptualisation of life and death, and the role of religious observance. The final chapter assesses the powerful influence of Gilgamesh on later works of ancient literature, from the Hebrew Bible, to the Odyssey, to The Tales of the Arabian Nights, and his reception through to the modern era. Gilgamesh is an invaluable tool for anyone seeking to understand this fascinating figure, and more broadly, the relevance of Near Eastern myth in the classical world and beyond.
Book Synopsis Gilgamesh the King by : Robert Silverberg
Download or read book Gilgamesh the King written by Robert Silverberg and published by . This book was released on 1984-10-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Never Grow Old written by Brian Trent and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the purple predawn of civilization before pyramids and coliseums, in the land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. Gilgamesh is the king of Uruk, mightiest city in the fertile cresent. Enkidu is the creature of the wilderness, last of an ancient tribe now eclipsed into legend. Siduri is the mysterious outsider living in the fabled country called the Mouth of the Rivers. Together they tell a tale of friendship, of loss and of one of man's desperate quest for immortality.
