First Heroes New Tales of the Bronze Age

he Bronze Age. The era of Troy, of Gilgamesh, of the dawning of human mastery over the earth. For decades, fantasists have set tales of heroism and adventure in imagined worlds based on the real Bronze Age, from the 'Hyborean Age' of the Conan stories to the Third Age of Middle-earth. Now bestselling SF and fantasy author Harry Turtle-dove, a noted expert on the ancient world, teams up with author and Egyptologist Noreen Doyle to present fourteen new tales of the real Bronze Age from some of the best writers in SF. Here is Gene Wolfe's mock-journal of a man from the future who travels with figures out of history and mythology; Judith Tarr's tale of a town that sends its resident goddess to try to learn the secrets of the morose God of Chariots; Harry Turtledove's story about mytho-logical beings witnessing the devastating effect of the first humans on Earth's natural order; and a poignant new story from the late Poul Anderson, in which a modern scholar is sent to the Bronze Age to witness the end of an era, emerging with memories from the past as vibrant and intact as those from his accustomed life.Turtledove, Harry is the author of 'First Heroes New Tales of the Bronze Age', published 2004 under ISBN 9780765302861 and ISBN 0765302861.