The Book Of Skulls
By (Author) Robert Silverberg
Orion Publishing Co
Gollancz
1st March 2000
16th December 1999
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Fantasy
813.54
Paperback
224
Width 128mm, Height 196mm, Spine 18mm
200g
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.
SALES POINTS* #23 in the Millennium SF Masterworks series, a library of the finest science fiction ever written * 'Could be his finest book so far' -- Greg Bear * Silverberg has been nominated for, and won more awards for his ficti