Gilgamesh the King

Gilgamesh the King is a 1984 fantasy novel by Robert Silverberg presenting the Epic of Gilgamesh as a novel. The novel is told from the point of view of Gilgamesh, and is primarily ambivalent about the supernatural elements of the epic. Most of the events are portrayed in a fairly realistic manner, and the reader is left undecided as to whether certain events are coincidence, or divine intervention. Silverberg afterwards wrote a number of stories for the fantasy anthology series Heroes in Hell describing Gilgamesh's posthumous adventures in the underworld, including the award-winning novella... "Gilgamesh in the Outback.
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Author:	Robert Silverberg
Genre:	Fantasy, Speculative fiction
Year published:	1984
Number of editions:	6

Honors and Awards

Year	Award Nomination
1985	Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel

Author of Gilgamesh the King

Robert Silverberg

Age:77

Birthplace:Brooklyn, New York

Education:Columbia University

Robert Silverberg is an American author, best known for writing science fiction. He is a multiple winner of both Hugo and Nebula awards. He is a 1999 inductee into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. Silverberg was born in Brooklyn, New York. A voracious reader since childhood, he began submitting...
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Additional works by Robert Silverberg

Book	Copyright Date	Genre
A Time of Changes	1971	Science Fiction
The World Inside	1971	Dystopia
The Man in the Maze	1969	Science Fiction
Up the Line	August 1969	Science Fiction
Downward to the Earth	1970	Science Fiction
To Live Again	1969	Science Fiction
Tower of Glass	October 1970	Science Fiction
The Book of Skulls	1972	Fantasy
Revolt on Alpha C	1955	Science Fiction
The Face of the Waters	November 1991	Science Fiction
Hawksbill Station	1968	Science Fiction
Dying Inside	1972	Science Fiction
Sailing to Byzantium/Seven American Nights	2000	Fantasy
Roma Eterna	2003	Alternate history
The Positronic Man		Science Fiction
Nightfall	1990	Science Fiction
The Ugly Little Boy		Novel
The Shrouded Planet	1957	Science Fiction
The Dawning Light	1959	Science Fiction
Son of Man	June 1971	Science Fiction
Gilgamesh in the Outback		Science Fiction
The Stochastic Man	1975	Speculative fiction
Thorns	August 1967	Science Fiction
Shadrach in the Furnace	1976	Fiction
Dawn of Time		Science Fiction
Strange Gifts		Science Fiction
Alpha 9		Science Fiction
Nightwings	September 1969	Science Fiction
The King of Dreams	June 2001	Speculative fiction
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One		Science Fiction
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First American into Space	1961
Star of Gypsies	1986	Speculative fiction
Project Pendulum	1987	Speculative fiction
Majipoor Chronicles	1982	Speculative fiction
The Mountains of Majipoor	1995	Speculative fiction
The Alien Years	1998	Speculative fiction
The Second Trip	1972	Speculative fiction
Valentine of Majipoor	1999	Speculative fiction
The New Springtime	1989	Speculative fiction
Letters from Atlantis	1990	Speculative fiction
Hot Sky at Midnight	1994	Speculative fiction
Phases of the Moon: Stories of Six Decades	May 2004	Speculative fiction
Seventh Shrine	September 2004	Speculative fiction
Lord Valentine's Castle	April 1980	Speculative fiction
In the Beginning: Tales from the Pulp Era	February 28, 2006	Speculative fiction
Lord Prestimion	August 1998	Speculative fiction
Lost Race of Mars	1960	Speculative fiction
The 13th Immortal	1957	Speculative fiction
Starhaven	1958	Speculative fiction
At Winter's End	1988	Speculative fiction
Cronos	2001	Speculative fiction
A Robert Silverberg Omnibus (US 1981)	1981	Speculative fiction
Next Stop the Stars	1962	Speculative fiction
Unfamiliar Territory	1973	Speculative fiction
The Silent Invaders	April 1963	Speculative fiction
Master of Life and Death	1957	Speculative fiction
Needle in a Timestack	November 1966	Speculative fiction
The Best of Robert Silverberg	1976	Speculative fiction
The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg	1992	Speculative fiction
Secret Sharers	1992	Speculative fiction
Lion Time in Timbuctoo	2000	Speculative fiction
Moonferns and Starsongs	1971	Speculative fiction
The Reality Trip and Other Implausibilities	1972	Speculative fiction
To the Dark Star: The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg, Volume Two	June 1, 2007	Speculative fiction
Capricorn Games	1976	Speculative fiction
The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party	1984	Speculative fiction
Beyond the Safe Zone	1986	Speculative fiction
The Shores of Tomorrow	1976	Speculative fiction
The Cube Root of Uncertainty	1970	Speculative fiction
Godling, Go Home!	1964	Speculative fiction
Dimension Thirteen	1969	Speculative fiction
Earth's Other Shadow	1973	Speculative fiction
The Feast of St. Dionysus	1975	Speculative fiction
Sunrise on Mercury and Other Science Fiction Stories	1975	Speculative fiction
To Open the Sky	1967	Speculative fiction
To Worlds Beyond	1965	Speculative fiction
Valley Beyond Time	1973	Speculative fiction
World of a Thousand Colors	1982	Speculative fiction
A Robert Silverberg Omnibus (UK 1970)	1970	Speculative fiction
The Songs of Summer	1979	Speculative fiction
Sunrise on Mercury	1983	Speculative fiction
Conquerors from the Darkness / Master of Life and Death	July 1979	Speculative fiction
The Realm Of Prester John	1996
Sorcerers of Majipoor	1997	Speculative fiction
Starborne	1996	Speculative fiction
Those Who Watch	1967	Speculative fiction
Master of Life and Death / The Secret Visitors	1957	Speculative fiction
The Mutant Season	November 1989	Speculative fiction
The Secret Sharer	1993	Fiction
Across Time / Invaders From Earth	1958	Speculative fiction
Lest We Forget Thee, Earth / People Minus X	1958	Speculative fiction
Starhaven / The Sun Smasher	1959	Speculative fiction
Invisible Barriers	1958	Speculative fiction
Something Wild is Loose	March 24, 2008	Speculative fiction
Stepsons of Terra	1958	Speculative fiction
The Silent Invaders / Battle on Venus	1963	Speculative fiction
Across a Billion Years	1969	Speculative fiction
Kingdoms of the Wall	1992	Speculative fiction
13th Immortal	February 24, 2009	Speculative fiction

Series containing Gilgamesh the King

Gilgamesh

Books in this series

Book	Copyright Date	Genre
Gilgamesh the King	1984	Fantasy

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Fantasy

Fantasy literature is fantasy in written form. Historically speaking, literature has composed the majority of fantasy works. Since the 1960s however,...
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Speculative fiction

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