To the Land of the Living

Science Fiction Grand Master Robert Silverberg returns to the mythical world of Gilgamesh the King in this adventurous sequel based on the Hugo Award-winning novella Gilgamesh in the Outback The warrior-king Gilgamesh-part man, part god-is not only larger than life; he is larger than death. Trapped in the Afterworld, a bizarre reality in which everyone who has ever died lives again . . . only to die again and again in endless succession, Gilgamesh sets out to find his lost friend Enkidu and fight his way back to the land of the living. Along the way, he encounters a rogue's gallery of figures from history, literature, and myth-including H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard-and travels from the ancient city of Uruk to modern-day Manhattan. But the Afterworld is not so easily escaped. "An enthralling quest." -The Times (London) "A sustained philosophical whimsey." -Belfast Telegraph Robert Silverberg is one of science fiction's most beloved writers, and the author of such contemporary classics as Dying Inside, Downward to the Earth, and Lord Valentine's Castle. He is a past president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and the winner of five Nebula Awards and five Hugo Awards. In 2004 the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America presented him with the Grand Master Award. Silverberg is one of twenty-nine writers to have received that distinction.