Projekt Gilgameš

The hero is Urshanabi, the boatman of the Epic of Gilgamesh, who through the powder of a black flower becomes immortal instead of the king. He travels across continents and centuries, into our days and the near future, meets historical and literary figures such as Christopher Columbus and Doctor Moreau, and tries to do something good for humankind. Into his story seeps a conversation between a 'robopsychologist' and a superintelligent computer tasked with finding the meaning of human existence. Instead of an exact answer, the machine tells the young scientist the tale of the ferryman, to persuade him that the future should be in its hands rather than humanity's, since people's need for an enemy is too strong.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

159 pages in the original

Genres

Speculative, Historical (assigned by AI)

First published

2019 by Druhé město

Author's age

34 when first published

ISBN

9788072274147 (original)