The Book Of Skulls (Paperback, New Ed)

Silverberg, as Theodore Sturgeon just commented, has of late "vaulted into a new order of magnitude" - for magnitude, a questionable magnitude, you might substitute hieratic mystery in this story of four young men who go to a monastery in the Arizona desert in the knowledge that two will live and two will die according to the ninth canon of the Book of Skulls. The story is told in alternating insets by each of them (two are "jocks"; two are "queers" although one admits to the latter only toward the close) and in between all the hip talk recorded on this ultimate purgative high ("A psychic enema might not be such a bad thing") the interest naturally centers on which life for an immortal life will be exchanged. Metaphysical Russian roulette? (Kirkus Reviews)

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. But for each group of four who enter the rite, two must die in order for the others to succeed.

General

Imprint:	Gollancz
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	S.F. Masterworks
Release date:	December 1999
Authors:	Robert Silverberg
Dimensions:	196 x 128 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	224
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-1-85798-914-4
Categories:	Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Science fiction Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Fantasy
LSN:	1-85798-914-7
Barcode:	9781857989144

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