Neil Davies was born in 1979 in the middle of England. He works in a university somewhere, and this is his first piece of published fiction.
This may come as a surprise, but probably only insofar that you didn't realize we hadn't written this yet. The cry of "we're alive!" has been made a few times, but it's time to say we're not.
While I found the cover off-putting for a handful of reasons, once inside I was caught in the flow of the narrative. Roberts realizes her players well, showing multiple sides to mythic characters, and the details she puts into this historical re-imagining of "The Epic of Gilgamesh" really bring the story to life.
