M�lorvat: The Future Gilgamesh

As two trees may twine their roots, so thatOne uprooted uproots the other,So have you, son, and Sajeth, son ofThak, become twined, the Two-Made-Like-One In the way of lovers and of brothers.Your humanness makes you friends to death. -The Mother of MálorvatMálorvat: The Future Gilgamesh is an eco-science fiction retelling of the Epic of Gilgamesh. Málorvat (Gilgamesh) is a brilliant but reckless cyborg bioengineer on an alien world colonized by humans. His beloved friend, Sajeth (Enkidu), is a human-alien hybrid harmonized to live with that world. Together they set out to destroy the alien forest that is poisoning the human colonists. But its guardian, the alien creature Davshálat (Humbaba), will protect its native ecosystem with its life. Málorvat is presented as a far-future critical edition in "ancient" epic poem form, an illustrated tale with in-universe commentary and over twenty full-color illustrations by diverse artists.