Dragaera

The pleasures and quandries of getting older

Mark A Mandel mam at theworld.com
Fri Jan 30 15:32:58 PST 2004

Oh, and who else remembers the pastiche/tribute to him in, was it F&SF?,
titled "Call Me Titan"?
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Ah, thank you, Google. It was in Asimov's. To quote from
http://www.majipoor.com/shorts/scallmetitan.html:

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Call Me Titan
by Robert Silverberg
Index Form: Novelette

Year: 1997

Publication history:

1997 : Asimov's February 1997 (m) ,
1998 : Lord of the Fantastic: Stories in Honor of Roger Zelazny (pb) ,
Avon

Comments:

This novelette appears with a dedication "In Memoriam: RZ" and
represents a "conscious effort to use his (Roger Zelazny's) manner and
themes." It succeeds brilliantly. It's the story of a mostly-forgotten
character from Greek mythology, the Titan called Typhoeus, whose purpose
it was to destroy the newcomer Zeus who had taken over Mount Olympus. A
volcanic eruption frees the Titan from his mountain prison and he bursts
forth into our world to exact his revenge on Zeus. But Zeus is, to say
the least, elusive. This story evokes the style and mood of Zelazny's
best works (Lord of Light and so on) marvelously.
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I agree with this evaluation, evidently by Jon Davis, the maintainer of
the site, which Silverberg himself calls "the Quasi-Official Robert
Silverberg Site" (on the home page, http://www.majipoor.com/home.html).

-- Mark M.