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Eaters of the Dead: The Manuscript of Ibn Fadlan Relating His Experiences with the Northmen in AD 922 (later republished as The 13th Warrior to correspond with the film adaptation of the novel) is a 1976 novel by Michael Crichton, the fourth novel under his own name and his 14th overall.
Eaters of the Dead is narrated as a scientific commentary on an old manuscript and was inspired by two sources. The first three chapters retell Ahmad ibn Fadlan 's personal account of his journey north and his experiences in encountering the Rus' , a Varangian tribe, whilst the remainder is based upon the story of Beowulf , culminating in ...
The 13th Warrior is a 1999 American historical fiction action film based on Michael Crichton's 1976 novel Eaters of the Dead, [5] which is a loose adaptation of the tale of Beowulf combined with Ahmad ibn Fadlan's historical account of the Volga Vikings. It stars Antonio Banderas as Ahmad ibn Fadlan, as well as Diane Venora and Omar Sharif.
1999: The 13th Warrior, action movie directed by John McTiernan mixing Beowulf with the travels of Ibn Fadlan; based on Crichton's Eaters of the Dead (see below). 2005: Beowulf & Grendel, starring Gerard Butler and directed by the Icelandic-Canadian Sturla Gunnarsson. 2007: Grendel, a made-for television movie on the Sci Fi Channel (United States).
From IMDB's trivia section on the film: "Since Michael Crichton published his novel "Eaters of the Dead" in 1976, the basis of this film, it has become regarded as one of the most notorious hoaxes in Librarianship Circles. The Ahmad Tusi Manuscript that Crichton referenced in his bibliography as being the source of this story, is completely ...
The Book Eaters debuted at #2 on the Sunday Times bestseller list for fiction hardbacks in the UK, and reached #2 on the Vancouver Sun's list of bestselling international books in August 2022. [14] It was nominated for a Goodreads Choice Award in 2022. [15] Booklist named it a top science fiction/fantasy and horror debut of 2022. [16]
The story is based on Brin's Hugo-nominated novella Thor Meets Captain America; the first third of the novel is a retelling of that story. [7] [8]In the author's notes for Thor Meets Captain America, David Brin records that he was invited by Gregory Benford to write a piece for an alternate history collection, entitled Hitler Victorious, but voiced the opinion that he could not think of a ...
The Book of the Dead is a novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child published on July 1, 2007, by Warner Books. This is the seventh book in the Special Agent Pendergast series. [ 1 ] Also, it is the third and final installment to the trilogy concentrating on Pendergast and his relationship with Lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta in their pursuit to ...