The Stonehenge Gate

by Jack Williamson, Harlan Ellison (Narrated by)

Overview

A dark mystery has been buried beneath the sands of the Sahara for eons. In a basement in New Mexico, four poker buddies find reason to believe that a startling secret is out there, and these four amateur adventurers are about to uncover it.

Curiosity propels mild-mannered professor Will and his three friends to the Sahara to excavate a site where radar has detected trilithic stones hidden beneath the sand. There they stumble upon an ancient artifact that will change their lives—and the world—forever: a gateway between planets, linking Earth to distant worlds where they will discover wonders and terrors beyond imagining. Now each traveler must play a crucial role in unraveling an ancient mystery, the solution to which may reveal the true origins of the human race—if they can survive the journey back to Earth.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780786154340
Publisher:	Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Publication date:	09/05/2006
Edition description:	Unabridged

About the Author

Jack Williamson published his first short story in 1928. He is the author of such classic science fiction as The Legion of Space, The Humanoids, and Darker Than You Think. He is the recipient of the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America, the Hugo and Nebula Awards, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for the best science-fiction novel of 2001. He lives in Portales, New Mexico.

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The Stonehenge Gate

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By Williamson, Jack

Tor Science Fiction

Copyright © 2006

Williamson, Jack

All right reserved.

ISBN: 0765347954

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A Gate...

The rocks were identical: two square columns of smooth black stone, some ten feet square and spaced twice as far apart.

Derek squinted, and said "I think it's the lintel stone that lay across the top to frame the gate."

"Gate to where?" Lupe asked.

"To hell," Ram shrugged "If you remember my Little Mama's tales. She was certainly terrified of whatever she thought might follow her through the gate."

Derek was already tramping on to study the nearest stone. It was an odd black granite, veined with thin green streaks, perfectly squared and polished slick. "I'm no geologist," he said, "but I never saw a stone like this. It certainly wasn't quarried anywhere near here. No culture so old ever worked stone so well."

Ram and I followed. I heard him gasp. When I turned back, he was gone.

"Ram!" Lupe was calling. "Ram!"

We heard no answer. We scattered out to search the sand around us and found no footprints, no sign of him or where he had gone. We were gathering again in the shadow of the column when he came staggering back out of nowhere and fell on his face right beside me...

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Editorial Reviews

"As you might expect from an author who's been in print in nine decades now, it's a well-crafted . . . story."

The San Diego Union-Tribune

"The amazingly durable Jack Williamson turn out another wild, old style adventure story.... as effective as ever."

Chronicle

"One of Williamson's strongest and most entertaining …"

SF Review

"The amazingly durable Jack Williamson turn out another wild, old style adventure story. There aren't many writers producing this kind of wild, inventive excitement any more, but Williamson proves to be as effective as ever."

—Chronicle on The Stonehenge Gate

"One of Williamson's strongest and most entertaining …"

—SF Review on The Stonehenge Gate

"In Jack Williamson's The Stonehenge Gate, a quartet of poker-playing academics decide to check out a circle of trilithons (yeah, that Stonehenge) revealed under Sahara sands by ground-penetrating radar. Yep, they're gates, and they go to different places, with different humans and Earthlike life. They also go to machine-guarded cities and strange binary planets and other circles of trilithons. As you might expect from an author who's been in print in nine decades now, it's a well-crafted…story."

—The San Diego Union-Tribune

"I have no hesitation in placing Jack Williamson on a plane with two other American giants, Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein."

—Arthur C. Clarke on Jack Williamson

"Jack Williamson is a man of extraordinary talent and consummate humility, of penetrating intelligence and great kindness, a scholar and a gentleman."

—Connie Willis, author of Doomsday Book, on Jack Williamson

"Jack Williamson's work, spanning most of the century, has inspired countless minds."

—David Brin, author of Startide Rising and The Postman, on Jack Williamson

"This man can do anything."

—Frederik Pohl, author of Gateway, on Jack Williamson

"A pioneering writer, breaking ground in new areas long before most of us had learned how to read."

—Ben Bova, author of Venus, on Jack Williamson

"Jack Williamson is one of those fortunate, gifted writers whose readers feel their lives changed because of his work."

—The New York Review of Science Fiction on Jack Williamson

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