The farther back you go, the worse the symptoms. Time travel produces nausea and illness, especially if you aren’t used to it.
They warn him that things might not go as well as he hopes. The inexperienced agent is sent after them because none of the other agents are willing to make the trip.
After a year and a half, the organization has managed to narrow down where the missing agents are, but there’s a decent margin of error. They were supposed to go to Rome, but something went wrong. So Randy, thanks for the tip.Ī relatively inexperienced agent of a time traveling organization is sent back to Ancient Egypt to search for two missing agents. I hadn’t read it, but I did have a copy on one of my ereaders. In the comments to my previous post, Randy suggested that “Thebes of the Hundred Gates” was one Robert Silverberg’s best time travel stories. Cover art by Fred Gambino.Most recently reprinted in Hot Times in Magma City As the scheduled hour of his rendezvous with the time field approaches, Davis is faced with the truth behind the fate of his former colleagues and the prospect of sharing that fate. Instead, he’s taken in by a temple priestess, befriended by a beautiful slave girl and tricked into crossing the Nile to to the City of the Dead. Davis has thirty days in which to get a grip and find the missing time travellers. Reeling from the time-jump, he arrives in Thebes only to find his survival training is no protection against the intoxicating magic of Egypt: Pyramids and obelisks snakes with legs winking sphinxes birds with the heads of women and women with the heads of birds forests of huge stone columns lapis lazuli and gold and a plump Pharaoh on his throne. Edward Davis, a promising rookie in the Time Service is sent back to find them…back much further than he has ever been before. Two time-travellers from the 27th century go missing in Ancient Egypt.
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