Final pair: Volumes 5 and 6 of The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny
ckovacs
(The Road to Amber) of The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny are in
press and are anticipated to be on sale through the NESFA Press
website beginning the second week of December. It will take several
weeks longer for sales to begin through the big on-line retailers.
Here are the complete Tables of Contents for the final two volumes:
NINE BLACK DOVES: Volume 5
Introductions:
Considering Cows by Melinda Snodgrass
The Two Rogers by George R. R. Martin
Stories
Permafrost
Itself Surprised (§ Fred Saberhagen’s Berserker universe)
Mana from Heaven (§ Larry Niven’s The Magic Goes Away universe)
Devil and the Dancer (§ Dilvish 9 of 11)
Garden of Blood (§ Dilvish 10 of 11)
Dilvish, the Damned (§ Dilvish 11 of 11)
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Dreadsong
Dayblood
The Bands of Titan
Night Kings
Quest’s End
The Sleeper (§ Wild Cards)
Ashes to Ashes (§ Wild Cards)
Deadboy Donner and the Filstone Cup
Kalifriki of the Thread (§ Kalifriki)
The Deadliest Game
24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai
Articles
Constructing a Science Fiction Novel
The Process of Composing
Science Fiction Writing at Length
Fantasy and Science Fiction: A Writer’s View
Beyond the Idea
“…And Call Me Roger”: The Literary Life of Roger Zelazny, Part 5, by
Christopher S. Kovacs
Curiosities
Head Count
Changeling (Film Outline) (§ Pol Detson / Wizard World)
Coils (Outline)
Alien Speedway (Outline)
The Ahriman Factor (Outline)
Poems
The De-Synonymization of Winter
Dreamscape
Riptide
555-1212
I, the Crooked Rose’s Dream, Dumb-Sung Anatomie
Hands
To Spin Is Miracle Cat
Evangel
Song of the Ring
Day of Doom
Night of Fisting
The Game’s Thirteenth Strike
Locker Room
Song
Nameless Grave By a Nameless Sea, Probably Greek
Appendix C
Evil Chasing Prayer
THE ROAD TO AMBER: Volume 6
Introductions
Roger Zelazny by Jane Lindskold
Remembering Roger by Gerald Hausman
The Trickster by Gardner Dozois
Stories
Godson
Godson: A Play in Three Acts
Come Back to the Killing Ground, Alice, My Love (§ Kalifriki)
Prince of the Powers of This World
The Long Crawl of Hugh Glass
Tunnel Vision
Epithalamium
Forever After: Preludes and Postlude
Lady of Steel
The Three Descents of Jeremy Baker
The Sleeper: Character Outline (§ Wild Cards)
Concerto for Siren and Serotonin (§ Wild Cards)
The Long Sleep (§ Wild Cards)
Amber
Amber Map
Prolog to Trumps of Doom
The Road to Amber
The Great Amber Questionnaire
A Secret of Amber (with Ed Greenwood)
The Salesman’s Tale
Blue Horse, Dancing Mountains
The Shroudling and the Guisel
Coming to a Cord
Hall of Mirrors
Articles
On Writing Horror After Reading Clive Barker
“When It Comes It’s Wonderful”: Art versus Craft in Writing
Warriors and Dreams
“…And Call Me Roger”: The Literary Life of Roger Zelazny, Part 6, by
Christopher S. Kovacs
Curiosities
Sandow’s Shadow (Outline) (§ Francis Sandow)
Shadowland (Outline) (§ Shadowjack)
Dysonized Biologicals (Outline)
Donnerjack, of Virtù: A Fable for the Machine Age (Outline)
Celebration
A Zelazny Timeline
Z-World by Michael Whelan
The Quintessential Roger Zelazny
Isle of Regret by Trent Zelazny
In Memoriam: Roger Zelazny by George R. R. Martin
Songs (in Godson: A Play in Three Acts)
My Given Name Is Death
Why Do Little Boys Lie?
It’s Rough Being a Bike
Be a Doctor
Why’s Good-bye So Easy for Him?
Remembering
Oh, How the Dying Goes On
Oh, Wondrous Weed
The Man Who Went Away
Betrayed
Let’s Do It
Save That Quarterback
Poetry
Our Own Piece of the Sky
The Appetite and Rising Sun
Cry of the Needy
What Child Is This?
Storm
Walking, of Course
Spinning the Day Through My Head
Paranoid Game
The God and Frustrate Shrine
Ikhnaton’s Hymn to the Sun
The Rational Gods
Spring Morning: Missive
If anyone has questions about what some of these items are, post those
questions here.
Chris
change at mac dot com to mun dot ca to reply
ckovacs
NESFA Press has received the books from the printer and the warehouse
is fully stocked. Expect the NESFA Press order page to go live for
these two volumes any time now, possibly today. Amazon and others will
follow over the subsequent weeks.
Chris
ckovacs
There was a bit of a delay but as of today (Friday, December 11)
volumes 5 & 6 are on sale through NESFA Press's online store.
Go directly to:
http://www.nesfa.org/press/Books/Zelazny-5.html
and
http://www.nesfa.org/press/Books/Zelazny-6.html
At the moment the "Zelazny Project" page still shows them as
forthcoming but the individual pages have the sales links.
Chris