| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
575 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
The collected stories of Roger Zelazny ; v. 1 |
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Zelazny, Roger.
Works. Selections. 2009 ; v. 1.
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| Note |
Includes publication history (p. 571-572). |
| Contents |
Out of nowhere / Robert Silverberg -- Before amber / Carl B. Yoke -- Rose for Ecclesiastes -- And the darkness is harsh -- Mr. Fuller's revolt -- Youth eternal -- Outward sign -- Passion play -- Graveyard heart -- Horseman! -- Teachers rode a wheel of fire -- Moonless in Byzantium -- On the road to Splenoba -- Final dining -- Borgia hand -- Nine starships waiting -- Circe has her problems -- Malatesta collection -- Stainless steel leech -- Doors of his face, the lamps of his mouth -- Thing of terrible beauty -- Monologue for two -- Threshold of the prophet -- Museum piece -- Mine is the kingdom -- King Solomon's ring -- Misfit -- Great slow kings -- Collector's fever -- Night has 999 eyes -- He who shapes -- Sundry notes on dybology and suchlike -- "...And call me Roger": The literary life of Roger Zelazny, part 1-- Conditional benefit -- Hand of the master -- Great selchie of San Francisco bay -- Studies in saviory -- Braxa -- Ecclesiastes' epilogue -- Bok -- Diet -- Slush, slush, slush -- Agnostic's prayer -- On May 13, 1937 -- Cactus king -- Our wintered way through evening, and burning bushes along it -- In the dogged house -- Future, be not impatient -- Flight -- Sense and sensibility -- World of stat's a drunken bat -- Cat licks her coat -- From a seat in the chill park -- Rodin's "The Kiss" -- To his morbid mistress -- Old Ohio folkrag -- How a poem means -- Concert -- Iceage -- Hart crane -- Southern cross -- I used to think in lines that were irregular to the right -- Hybris, or the danger of hilltops -- St. Secaire's -- In Pheleney's garage -- Black boy's reply to William Butler Yeats -- Rite of spring -- Decade plus one of roses -- See you later, maybe. |
| Summary |
The first in a six-volume series, Volume 1: Threshold contains all of Zelazny's short works from his early years through the mid 1960s--a period of experimentation and growth that flowered into gems such as "A Rose for Ecclesiastes," "The Graveyard Heart," "The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth," and "He Who Shapes." The stories in this series are enriched by editors' notes and Zelazny's own words, taken from his many essays, describing why he wrote the stories and what he thought about them in retrospect. |
| Subject |
Science fiction, American.
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Fantasy fiction, American.
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American poetry.
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| Added Author |
Grubbs, David G.
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Kovacs, Christopher S.
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Crimmins, Ann.
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| ISBN |
9781886778719 |
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188677871X |
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