The Weird and the Wonderful DXXXVI: Bel's Last Sacrifice & The Black and White

Today we will cover two Czech novels, one dealing with an unnamed city on the verge of a massive worker's strike, being unknowingly caught in the crossfire of two eternal beings and their endless war with one another
And the other concerns a Russian emigrés frantic efforts to save his beloved from being offered as a human sacrifice amid the ruins of the E-Sagila, to ensure the resurrection of Babylon.
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[@StephenRansom47]

😅 … I wonder how well the lesson of Bel’s Last Sacrifice was learned by the author. Sadly this lesson is obliviated in modern authors- still forcing lessons upon Modern Audiences.

[@WeirdWonderful]

It's more, he pretended to write a romance, just so he could then spend 60 pages going on a lecture instead, and on the last page he admits he tricked his audience I didn't mention he already had a different scene with an archaeologist going on about ancient Sumerian myths, the locations of dig sites, and the history of various digs in the region. Again I would like this if it was used as part of the story, not just have these parroted at the reader.