Gilgamesh the King Quotes

“That is the truth. I know now that we need not fear death, if we have done our tasks. And when we cease to fear death, there is no death. That is the truest truth I know: There is no death.”
― Robert Silverberg, Gilgamesh the King

“that this must be the earliest science-fiction story still in existence, for surely the tale of a quest for an immortality serum qualifies as science fiction.”
― Robert Silverberg, Gilgamesh the King

“Since the Bible text we have could not be any older than about 1300 B.C., this Sumerian myth must have been in circulation in the Mesopotamian region for at least a thousand years when the earliest text of Genesis was written.”
― Robert Silverberg, Gilgamesh the King