Smugglers aid an Iraqi museum in recovering neo-Babylonian tablets recounting The Epic of Gilgamesh. The tablets describe a forest and its ruler, which bears a striking resemblance to the one encountered by Gilgamesh's friends in the new novel, Distant Origins. The novel tells the story of Gilgamesh and his gods in the near future, inhabiting a different world, which modern man colonizes.
Wallingford, CT - S Shane Thomas, author of Distant Origins, wrote about the gods of Gilgamesh's era, and a monkey god who fights Gilgamesh's team in ...