![]() ![]() Within the passage of weeks, the sun and moon peaked lower and lower in their daily journeys. ![]() Climbing the tower takes up a good portion of the novelette, but reading about it never gets dull because the tower is a world to itself, and there are wonders all along the way. Hillalum is afraid to climb it-as his friend Nanni says, going up to dig seems unnatural-but climb it he does. The tower has taken centuries to build and is almost unimaginably tall. The protagonist of Tower of Babylon is Hillalum, a miner from Elam and a member of a group of miners who have come to Babylon to mine the vault of heaven near the top of the tower. My reviews of all eight stories follow.įrom the Tower of Babel (Babylon) myth springs this fully developed fantasy novelette. ![]() The novella did not disappoint, and I went on to read the other stories in the collection. After seeing Arrival, the movie which is based on your novella, Story of Your Life, I was eager to read the source material and reserved this collection at the library. ![]()
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