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
Cover art
Unknown

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

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