This is a unique novel, and it is incredibly well constructed and written. David Selig, the protagonist, is intellectual and erudite, a quintessential Jewish New Yorker who shares many of Robert Silverberg's cultural tastes as well as his Columbia University education. But Selig's life is full of suffering.4/5(98). Silverberg is one of the finest writers to come out of science fiction and fantasy. The Book of Skulls is both one of his straighter fiction tales and, at the same time, the most esoteric. The plot concerns four college students on a journey to find a hidden monastery in Arizona/5. Four students discover a manuscript, The Book of Skulls, which reveals the existence of a sect, now living in the Arizona desert, whose members can offer immortality to those who can complete its initiation rite. To their surprise, they discover that the sect exists, and is willing to accept them as www.doorway.ru Count:
The Book of Skulls, Scribner's Hard cover book, pp. Vacanze nel Deserto, Dall'Oglio Trade paperback, in Italian; Het Boek der Schedelen, Scala, ISBN , pp., in Dutch; The Book of Skulls, Gollancz Hard cover book; The Book of Skulls, Berkley Mass market paperback, pp. out of 5 starsPsychological study of an aging telepath. In his preface to a new edition, Robert Silverberg shares with us part of the letter he wrote to Betty Ballantine pitching the book on New Year's Eve "The working title is 'Dying Inside.'. It is a story set in reasonably here-and-now times, of a telepath of early middle age. Oz Reviews The Book of Skulls by Robert Silverberg Oz Reviews The Book of Skulls by Robert Silverberg. Monday, J Nick Ozment Comments 0 Comment. This novel came out in under the Signet Science Fiction imprint, which is quite misleading. There is nary a hint of sci-fi in its pages.
Seeking the immortality promised in an ancient manuscript, The Book of Skulls, four friends, college roommates, go on a spring break trip to Arizona: Eli, the scholar, who found and translated the book; Timothy, scion of an American dynasty, born and bred to lead; Ned, poet and cynic; and Oliver, the brilliant farm boy obsessed with death. Somewhere in the desert lies the House of Skulls, where a mystic brotherhood guards the secret of eternal life. Silverberg is one of the finest writers to come out of science fiction and fantasy. The Book of Skulls is both one of his straighter fiction tales and, at the same time, the most esoteric. The plot concerns four college students on a journey to find a hidden monastery in Arizona. Four students discover a manuscript, The Book of Skulls, which reveals the existence of a sect, now living in the Arizona desert, whose members can offer immortality to those who can complete its initiation rite. To their surprise, they discover that the sect exists, and is willing to accept them as acolytes.
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