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The First Heroes: New Tales of the Bronze Age
| Author: | Harry Turtledove Noreen Doyle |
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Tor, 2004 |
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| Book Type: | Anthology |
| Genre: | Fantasy |
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Synopsis
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 science fiction 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 science fiction.
In The First Heroes: 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.
Table of Contents:
- Definition - essay
- Introduction - essay by Harry Turtledove and Noreen Doyle
- The Lost Pilgrim - (2004) - novelette by Gene Wolfe
- How the Bells Came from Yang to Hubei - shortstory by B. W. Clough
- The Gods of Chariots - novelette by Judith Tarr
- The Horse of Bronze - novella by Harry Turtledove
- A Hero for the Gods - shortstory by Josepha Sherman
- Blood Wolf - novelette by S. M. Stirling
- Ankhtifi the Brave is dying - novelette by Noreen Doyle
- The God Voice - shortstory by Katharine Kerr and Debra Doyle
- Orqo Afloat on the Willkamayu - novelette by Karen Jordan Allen
- The Myrmidons - shortstory by Larry Hammer
- Giliad - novella by Gregory Feeley
- The Sea Mother's Gift - shortstory by Laura Frankos
- The Matter of the Ahhiyans - shortstory by Lois Tilton
- The Bog Sword - novelette by Poul Anderson
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