Robert Silverberg
Legal name: Silverberg, Robert
Birth place: New York, NY, USA
Birth date: 15 January 1935
Language: English
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Bibliographic comments: See also under general anthologies. Only Robert Silverberg’s genre titles related to Asia are listed
here. Silverberg's 'Gilgamesh' stories are based on The Epic of Gilgamesh set in ancient Mesopotamia, a full bibliography of
which can be found at the ISFDB here.
Biographic comments:
Novels
Gilgamesh the King
1984
Library edition: September 2011 edition
Gateway
ISBN 978-0-575-10632-1
Digital
£2.99
Notes:
• 'Gilgamesh' series.
Short fiction chapbooks
Gilgamesh in the Outback
1986
< January 2020 edition, 1st edition
Wildside Press
ISBN 978-1-4794-4560-8
Digital
$0.99
Notes:
• 'Gilgamesh' series.
• Winner of the 1980 Hugo Award for Best Novella.
To the Land of the Living
1989
< April 1989, 1st edition
Gollancz
ISBN 0-575-04461-6
Hardcover, 308 pages
£12.95
Notes:
• 'Gilgamesh' series, fix-up based on 'Gilgamesh in the Outback', 'The Fascination of the Abomination' and 'Gilgamesh
in Uruk'.
The Gate of Worlds
1967
Library edition: September 2011 edition
Gateway
ISBN 978-0-575-10604-8
Digital
£2.99
Notes:
• Set in an alternate 1980s in which Turkey was recently the dominant European power.
Shadrach in the Furnace
1976
Library edition: November 2011 edition
Gateway
ISBN 978-0-575-10630-7
Digital
£1.99
Notes:
• Set in Mongolia, also partially set in Istanbul and Jerusalem.
Up the Line
1969
Library edition: September 2011 edition
Gateway
ISBN 978-0-575-10620-8
Digital
£1.99
Notes:
• Mostly set in Turkey.
