Robert Silverberg THE BOOK OF SKULLS Centipede Press SIGNED/#'d MINT COPIES

Robert Silverberg THE BOOK OF SKULLS Centipede Press SIGNED/#'d MINT COPIES
Robert Silverberg THE BOOK OF SKULLS Centipede Press SIGNED/#'d MINT COPIES
Robert Silverberg THE BOOK OF SKULLS Centipede Press SIGNED/#'d MINT COPIES
Robert Silverberg THE BOOK OF SKULLS Centipede Press SIGNED/#'d MINT COPIES

Robert Silverberg THE BOOK OF SKULLS Centipede Press SIGNED/#'d MINT COPIES

Limited to 300 signed & numbered copies. Signed by Robert Silverberg, John Anthony di Giovanni, Jim Burns, and Malcolm Edwards. Several reproductions of covers of older editions of the book. Fully cloth bound, gorgeous dustjacket, ribbon marker, head and tail bands. Book size 6¼ × 10 inches.

Published in 1972, Robert Silverbergs. Confounded reviewers and science fiction fans with its then-present day road-trip setting, seemingly non-science fiction elements, and experimental narrative encompassing four different points of view. To sum it up, however, we might best leave it to Mr Silverberg himself, who states. Here we have a novel that takes place in the early 1970s, in the United States present time, at the time I wrote the book.

There are four narrators, who take turns telling the story. At that phase in my career I was interested in setting experiments in narrative technique for myself, and this was one of them, one of the most difficult, requiring me to tell each of the alternating chapters in a different tone of voice. The four are American college boys off on an Easter vacation. Theres nothing at all science-fictional about that; but there is nothing at all science-fictional about the first hour of. Turns science-fictional when the first pterodactyl goes fluttering by overhead and stays that way through its apocalyptic finale atop the Empire State Building.

Eventually the four boys of. Get to Arizona, where they have gone in search of the secret of eternal life; and since immortality is surely one of the classic themes of science fiction, and I have stated right there in the second paragraph of the book that the secret of immortality is what theyre seeking, perhaps that alone is enough to qualify the book as science fiction.

Surely the quest for immortality is science-fictional to the core, whether or not the seeker actually finds it. By that definition, I should point out, the 4,500-year-old Sumerian legend of Gilgamesh is science fiction. This business of definition is a troublesome thing. Features a new introduction by Malcolm Edwards, an afterword by Robert Silverberg, a gallery of covers of previous editions of the book, and new cover and endpaper artwork by John Anthony di Giovanni.

In addition, the books frontispiece is a reprint of Jim Burnss cover for the 1980s Bantam paperback, here reproduced in gorgeous full color, with no obscuring title or author information. The edition is limited to 300 copies.

The amount of advance excitement toward the book has been extraordinary and we expect it to sell out within a couple weeks. Printed at a luxurious size of 6¼ × 10 inches (like the other titles in our science fiction series), the book features full wraparound dustjacket work, full cloth binding, silver stamping on spine, blind stamping on front board, signature page, and the usual extras you expect. The item "Robert Silverberg THE BOOK OF SKULLS Centipede Press SIGNED/#'d MINT COPIES" is in sale since Monday, March 25, 2019.

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Robert Silverberg THE BOOK OF SKULLS Centipede Press SIGNED/#'d MINT COPIES