Book description
From the opening reared a head, wide, flat, huge. Below it stretched a
body beautiful with iridescent scales of gold edged with ruby.
Nictitating membranes lifted over enormous eyes, deep, limpid pools of
ancient wisdom, catching and reflecting the light of the miniature sun,
turning the glowing orb into a scatter of stars shimmering in an ebon
sea. From open jaws a forked tongue flickered with a soft susurration.
Its scent was dry, acrid, tinged with that of living fur on a summer's
day. The head rose higher, swaying over the three men on the ledge, the
sinuous length of the body almost filling the passage through which it
had come. From it radiated an impression of incredible age. "A
serpent," whispered Thagamista. "A creature from the beginning
of time. Somehow surviving to find this place and feast on those who
well here. It was inevitable they should think it a god." THE
SLEEPING CITY continues the dynamic saga of the Chronicles of Malkar, E.
C. Tubb's newest fantasy hero! Edwin Charles Tubb was born in London
in 1919, and was a prolific author of SF, fantasy and western novels,
under his own name and a number of pseudonyms. He wrote hundreds of
short stories and novellas for the SF magazines of the 50's, including
the long-running Galaxy Science Fiction, and was a founding member of
the British Science Fiction Association. He died in 2010.
