Thebes of the Hundred Gates
by Robert Silverberg
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An ambitious young member of the Time Service travels back to 1500 B.C. to rescue two fellow Service members lost in ancient Egypt. There's only one problem: they don't want to be rescued. A Nebula and Hugo Award winner, Silverberg writes with style, wit, and imagination (Library Journal).Tags
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A quick read, this read more like a short story than a novel, and at 116 pages, perhaps it was. I would've liked to have had more details along the way about the characters, but they were not well developed. I think this biggest problem with this book is that it had no climax. It carried along at a steady keel, with minimal ups and downs. It was interesting, but not very engaging.
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- Canonical title*
- Thèbes aux cent portes
- Original title
- Thebes of the Hundred Gates
- Original publication date
- 1992
- Epigraph
- Heaven is opened, the company of gods shines forth!
Amon-Re, Lord of Karnak, is exalted upon the great sea!
The Great Nine are exalted upon their seats!
Thy beauties are thine, O Amon-Re, Lord of Karnak!
... (show all)- The Liturgy of Amon
O Flame which came forth backwards, I have not stolen the god's offerings
O Bone-breaker who came forth from Heracleopolis, I have not told lies.
O Eater... (show all) of entrails who came forth from the House of Thirty, I have not committed perjury.
O You of the darkness who came forth from the darkness, I have not been quarrelsome.
O Nefertum who came forth from Memphis, I have done no wrong, I have seen no evil.
- The Negative Confession - Dedication
- For Joe and Gay Haldeman---
---many a cup of kindness yet--- - First words
- The sensory impact pressed in on him from all sides at once in the first dazzling moment of his arrival: a fierce bombardment of smells, sights, sounds, everything alien, everything much too intense, animated by a strange inn... (show all)er life.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"The new citizen asks the protection of Isis," she said. "And it is granted. Isis watches over you, now and forever. Come, now. We'll take you to your new home."
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