Thebes of the Hundred Gates
- by Robert Silverberg
- Novella
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- Thebes of the Hundred Gates
by Robert Silverberg (Axoloti Press, January 1992).
Edward Davis, a fresh recruit to the Time Service, is hurled back to ancient Egypt to track down a pair of other travelers who disappeared during the reign of Pharaoh Amenhotep III.
—Michael Main
He had made three training jumps, two hundred years, then four hundred, then six hundred, and he thought he knew what to expect, that sickening sense of breathlessness, of dizziness, of having crashed into the side of a mountain at full tilt; but everyone had warned him that even the impact of a six-C jump was nothing at all compared with the zap of a really big one, and everyone had been right.
Tags
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- Time Periods
- Ancient History (3000 BC to AD 476: Bronze/Iron Ages): circa 1350 BC
- Unspecified Future Year: Edward’s home time
- Timeline Models
- Time Travel Methods
- Time Portal: the jump field
- Themes
- Future Is “Down”: Someone from downtime showed up in Thebes today, Roger. From Home Era.
- Stuck in Time: Certainly Elaine and Roger were stuck in time, and now Edward may face the same fate.
- Time Corps: the Time Service
- Time Travel Sickness, Injuries, and Mixed-Up Body Parts: He passed out with heat stroke and a bad case of temporal shock.
- Real-World Tags
- Fictional Tags
- Groupings
Variants
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- Thebes of the Hundred Gates
by Robert Silverberg (Axoloti Press, January 1992). - Thèbes aux cent portes [Thebes of a hundred gates] by Robert Silverberg (J’ai Lu, May 1992).
- Das hunderttorige Theben [The hundred-gate Thebes] by Robert Silverberg (Publicações Europa-América, 1993).
- Tebe dalle cento porte [Thebes of a hundred gates] by Robert Silverberg, Urania #1204, May 1993.
- Tebas das Mil Portas [Thebes of a thousand gates] by Robert Silverberg, in Heyne Science Fiction Jahresband 1994, edited by Wolfgang Jeschke (Heyne, 1994).
Translations
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- Thebes of the Hundred Gates
by Robert Silverberg (Axoloti Press, January 1992). - French.
Thèbes aux cent portes [Thebes of a hundred gates] by Robert Silverberg (J’ai Lu, May 1992). - German.
Das hunderttorige Theben [The hundred-gate Thebes] by Robert Silverberg (Publicações Europa-América, 1993). - Italian.
Tebe dalle cento porte [Thebes of a hundred gates] by Robert Silverberg, Urania #1204, May 1993. - Portuguese.
Tebas das Mil Portas [Thebes of a thousand gates] by Robert Silverberg, in Heyne Science Fiction Jahresband 1994, edited by Wolfgang Jeschke (Heyne, 1994).
Indexer Notes
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- Title—italicized because of its original publication as a chapbook.
- Debut—Silverberg’s introduction to the story in his collected stories, vol. 8, indicates that the first publication was as a limited edition by Pulphouse in November 1991. Presumably, this used Pulphouse’s Axolotl Press imprint and carried a copyright date of January 1992. The Spectra paperback edition was not until June or July 1992.