Around the Continuum — Robert Silverberg

Gilgamesh in the Outback. In this Hugo Award winning novella, Ancient Sumerian king, Gilgamesh, found himself in a Hell not so very different from the kingdom in which he came. Faced with nothing much to do for eternity, he continues as a warrior in the eternity of hell.


Gilgamesh's conservatism and scorn for the modern technologies drove a wedge between him and his closest friend, Enkidu. Gilgamesh joins forces with other denizens of hell, including fantastic pulp writers H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard, to foil a plot of Queen Elizabeth's to assemble a fortress at the exit of Hell.  


“Gilgamesh” is not the only highly-acclaimed master  work included within. The other four stories were nominated for multiple major SF awards -- and highlight the author's mastery of the language and his capacity to engage the reader fully in worlds of his own making. Included in this collection are such classic tales: as "Sundance", "Shwartz Between the Galaxies", "Gianni", and "In Entropy's Jaws".