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Original Essays | September 23, 2009

Jonathan Lethem: IMG Stops: On Those Things My New Novel Forgot to Be About, Maybe

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For me, there's a weird, unfathomable gulf — I almost wrote gulp — between the completion of a novel and its publication. Some days this duration feels interminable, as though the book has... Continue »
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The First Heroes: New Tales of the Bronze Age

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The Bronze Age. The era of Troy, of Gilgamesh, of the dawning of human mastery over the earth. For decades, fantasists have set tales of heroism and adventure in imagined worlds based on the real Bronze Age, from the "Hyborean Age" of the Conan stories to the Third Age of Middle-earth.

Now bestselling SF and fantasy author Harry Turtledove, a noted expert on the ancient world, teams up with author and Egyptologist Noreen Doyle to present fourteen new tales of the real Bronze Age from some of the best writers in SF.

Here is Gene Wolfe's mock-journal of a man from the future who travels with figures out of history and mythology; Judith Tarr's tale of a a town that sends its resident goddess to try to learn the secrets of the morose God of Chariots; Harry Turtledove's story about mythological beings witnessing the devastating effect of the first humans on the Earth's natural order; and a poignant new story from the late Poul Anderson, in which a modern scholar is sent to the late Bronze Age to witness the end of an era, emerging with memories from the past as vibrant and intact as those from his accustomed life.

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"One of the best new anthologies to appear so far this century."
(Amazing Stories)

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"Ideal material for ambitious science fantasy, whether colorful or somber."
(Locus)

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"Readers will find some of these stories... amount to beautiful and durable artifacts."
(Publishers Weekly)

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"Kudos to a book to which lovers of historical fiction, fantastic and not, should be directed."
(Booklist)

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"Ancient history buffs and alternate history fans will love this collection."
(Romantic Times)

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An original anthology of fantasy tales set in the real age of heroes: the Bronze Age

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About the Author

The author of many SF and fantasy novels, including The Guns of the South, the "World War" series, and The Case of the Toxic Spell Dump, Harry Turtledove lives in Los Angeles with his wife, novelist Laura Frankos, and their four daughters.

Lecturer, fiction writer, archaeologist, and Egyptologist, Noreen Doyle lives in Maine.

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ISBN:
9780765302878
Subtitle:
New Tales of the Bronze Age
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Doyle, Noreen
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Doyle, Noreen
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Turtledove, Harry
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Turtledove, Harry
Author:
Turtledove, Harry
Author:
Doyle, Noreen
Editor:
Turtledove, Harry
Publisher:
Tor Books
Subject:
Fantasy - General
Subject:
Prehistoric peoples
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Fantasy - Historical
Subject:
Fantasy - Anthologies
Subject:
Bronze age
Publication Date:
October 2005
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
368
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896x588x95 106
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