The Book of Skulls (23 page)
—Robert Silverberg
July, 2004
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
R
OBERT
S
ILVERBERG
was born in New York and makes his home in the San Francisco area. He has written several hundred science fiction stories and more than seventy science fiction novels. He has won five Hugo awards and five Nebula awards. He is a past president of the Science Fiction Writers of America. Silverberg’s other titles include
Lord Valentine’s Castle, Majipoor Chronicles, The World Inside, Thorns, The Masks of Time,
and
The Tower of Glass.
In 2004 the Science Fiction Writers of America gave him its Grand Master Award for lifetime achievement.
The Book of Skulls
is a work of fiction. Names, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is
entirely coincidental.
2006 Del Rey Books Trade Paperback Edition
Copyright © 1972 by Robert Silverberg
Afterword copyright © 2006 by Robert Silverberg
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Del Rey Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
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Originally published in the United States by Charles Scribner’s Sons, in 1972.
eISBN: 978-0-345-49103-9
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