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First Edition 1990 Axolotl Press Eugene, Oregon Publisher code: 13 Leatherbound hardback / Hardback in dust jacket / Trade paperback Cover illustration by Donna Gordon iv+116 pages Price: $tbc (Deluxe) / $30.00 (Hardback) / $10.00 (Paperback) Notes Also published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (October 1990), this was a sequel to The Gate of Worlds (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967). Beyond the Gate of Worlds, a sequel anthology by RS, John Brunner and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, was published by Tor Books in 1991. Signed edition, limited to 900 copies:
In "Lion Time In Timbuctoo", Bob has taken the reader on a haunting visit to a distant land, familiar yet strange, to the intrigues and concerns of a dark court in twentieth century Africa. This is a world whose timeline parallels our own only until the fateful date of 1348 A.D., when the Black Death so decimated Europe that the few survivors were no match for Turkish invaders. So then, this is a world in which the Ottoman Empire extends northward to the edge of the English Channel. A world in which Incan and Aztec ambassadors from the New World come calling. A world of strange visitations and peculiar diplomacy. A note here about the ghostly Silverbergian craft. If you surface, momentarily, from full immersion in the narrative, you may want to take notice of the details gleaming, gemlike, here and there: the bright colors, the alien flora, the satin-smooth wood of the royal viewing pavilion. The tastes and sounds, the sweat and smells of a strange and exotic world fully evoked in print. And please, while you're looking, don't fail to notice the tastefully placed terminal commas. Bob is as fond of them as I am of chocolate. |
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