Novella
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.
