Lion Time in Timbuctoo (The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 6)
by Robert Silverberg
Year: 2000
Publisher: Harper & Row
Country: USA
Pages: 390
Media: Trade paperback
ISBN: 0006512208
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Cover art: (unknown)
ID: 735
Blurb:
'We travel in the hands of a master... Silverberg succeeds brilliantly in conveying the unknowable strangeness of the universe'
NEW SCIENTIST
Strange histories and alternate futures feature in Volume 6 of the Collected Stories. Robert Silverberg's fertile imagination explores the consequences of an even more virulent Black Death in 1348 than the one our ancestors lived through; the woeful last days of a veteran archaeologist and his pact with the dead; the fortunes of a vagrant band of Crusaders in the New World; Henry James's eyewitness account of the War of the Worlds; a brilliant icy sheen over the Occupied Zone – and a spooky patch of darkness; the vanishing of the mighty capital of a great empire – and its reappearance as modern-day Chicago … and much more, including the only science-fiction homage to J.R.R. Tolkien ever written.
'There are two things that abide: absolute awe at Silverberg's capacity for creating images...and the compassion that colours every word' WASHINGTON POST
'Silverberg's invention is prodigious' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
Contents:
Lion Time in Timbuctoo (The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume 6)
Introduction
Lion Time in Timbuctoo
A Tip on a Turtle
In the Clone Zone
Hunters in the Forest
A Long Night's Vigil at the Temple
It Comes and Goes
Looking for the Fountain
The Way to Spook City
The Red Blaze Is the Morning
Death Do Us Part
The Martian Invasion Journals of Henry James
Crossing into the Empire
The Second Shield