"Gilgamesh in the Outback"
by Robert Silverberg
Form: Novella
Year: 1986
ID: 377
Publication history:
- 1986: Asimov's July 1986, Magazine
- 1986: Rebels in Hell, Baen Mass market paperback, ISBN 0-671-65577-9, 308 pp.
- 1994: The New Hugo Winners, Volume 3, Baen Mass market paperback
- 2000: Fictionwise, Fictionwise Online
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Winner of Hugo Award for best novella, 1987. Nominated for Nebula Award for best novella, 1986.
The legendary king (from Gilgamesh the King) finds himself in a different kind of afterworld than he expected. This novella comprises Chapter 1-5 of the novel To the Land of the Living.