Book description
Edward Davis was a promising rookie in the Time Service. He had made
jumps into the past - two, three, even six centuries - but nothing could
prepare him for a leap of thirty-five centuries, all the way back to
Eighteenth Dynasty Egypt. In the blink of an eye, he found himself in a
world of temples and tombs, pharaohs and pyramids, jackal-headed gods,
mummies and talking beetles. In the ancient city of Thebes, Davis must
rescue two members of the Service lost in time. Taken in by a mysterious
temple priestess and befriended by a beautiful Egyptian slave girl,
Davis is sent to the City of the Dead to learn the trade of embalming.
But as the hour of his scheduled return to his own time approaches,
Edward Davis must come to grips with the truth behind the fate of his
comrades - and the seductive allure of ancient Egypt. Robert
Silverberg (1935 - ) Robert Silverberg was born in Brooklyn, New York,
in 1935, and is one of the most prolific authors of all time, writing
not just SF & Fantasy, but extensive non-fiction and a large number
of pseudonymously published erotica novels. In his first years as a
professional writer, his output regularly exceeded a million words per
year. He has won and been nominated for the Hugo and Nebula awards
dozens of times as both writer and editor, and in 2004 received the SFWA
Grand Master Award. Among his many acclaimed and bestselling novels are
A Time of Changes, The Book of Skulls, Dying Inside and Lord Valentine's
Castle. Robert Silverberg lives on the West Coast of the United States
with his wife, author, editor and art critic, Karen Haber.
