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.

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  1. Thebes of the Hundred Gates
    by Robert Silverberg (Axoloti Press, January 1992).
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Robert Silverberg

Translations

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  1. French.
    Thèbes aux cent portes by Robert Silverberg (J’ai Lu, May 1992).
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Robert Silverberg
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . translated by Frédéric Lasaygues
  2. German.
    Das hunderttorige Theben by Robert Silverberg (Publicações Europa-América, 1993).
    3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Robert Silverberg
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . translated by Jacqueline Medeiros
  3. Italian.
    Tebe dalle cento porte by Robert Silverberg, Urania #1204, May 1993.
    4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Robert Silverberg
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . translated by unknown persons
  4. Portuguese.
    Tebas das Mil Portas by Robert Silverberg, in Heyne Science Fiction Jahresband 1994, edited by Wolfgang Jeschke (Heyne, 1994).
    5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Robert Silverberg
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . translated by Roland Fleissner

Indexer Notes

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  1. Title—italicized because of its original publication as a chapbook.
  2. 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.