THE ROAD TO AMBER
VOLUME 6:
THE COLLECTED STORIES OF ROGER ZELAZNY
EDITED BY David G. Grubbs Christopher S. Kovacs Ann Crimmins
Post Office Box 809, Framingham, MA 01701 www.nesfa.org/press 2009 CONTENTS
Roger Zelazny by Jane Lindskold 11 Remembering Roger by Gerald Hausman 19 The Trickster by Gardner Dozois 25
STORIES
Godson . 35 Godson: A Play in Three Acts 59 Come Back to the Killing Ground, Alice, My Love (§ Kalifriki) . . , .113 Prince of the Powers of This World 157 The Long Crawl of Hugh Glass 165 Tunnel Vision 197 Epithalamium 199 Forever After: Preludes and Postlude 221 Lady of Steel 269 The Three Descents of Jeremy Baker 271 The Sleeper: Character Outline (§ Wild Cards) 279 Concerto for Siren and Serotonin (§ Wild Cards) 283 The Long Sleep (§ Wildcards) 331
AMBER {§)
Amber Map 364 Prolog to Trumps of Doom 365 The Road to Amber 369 The Great Amber Questionnaire 373 A Secret of Amber (with Ed Greenwood) 381 The Salesman's Tale 385 Blue Horse, Dancing Mountains 399 The Shroudling and the Guisel 405 Coming to a Cord 417 Hall of Mirrors 425
ARTICLES
On Writing Horror After Reading Clive Barker 445 "When It Comes It's Wonderful": Art versus Craft in Writing . . . .447 Warriors and Dreams 461 ".. .And Call Me Roger": The Literary Life of Roger Zelazny, Part 6 . .469
CURIOSITIES
Sandow's Shadow (Outline) (§ Francis Sandow) 523 Shadowland (Outline) (§ Shadowjack) 533 Dysonized Biologicals (Outline) 541 Donnerjack, of Virtu: A Fable for the Machine Age (Outline) .... 545
CELEBRATION
A Zelazny Timeline 555 Z-Wodd by Michael Whelan 563 The Quintessential Roger Zelazny 575 Isle of Regret by Trent Zelazny 579 In Memoriam: Roger Zelazny by George R R Martin 583
Publication History 587 Acknowledgments 589 SONGS (IN GODSON: A PLAY IN THREE ACTS)
My Given Name Is Death 60 Why Do Little Boys Lie? 63 It's Rough Being a Bike 68 Be a Doctor 72 Why's Good-bye So Easy for Him? 76 Remembering 77 Oh, How the Dying Goes On 78 Oh, Wondrous Weed 82 The Man Who Went Away 90 Betrayed 93 Let's Do It 103 Save That Quarterback 107
POETRY
Our Own Piece of the Sky 110 The Appetite and Rising Sun Ill Cry of the Needy 112 What Child Is This? 159 Storm 164 Walking, of Course 194 Spinning the Day Through My Head 196 Paranoid Game 218 The God and Frustrate Shrine 220 Ikhnaton's Hymn to the Sun 263 The Rational Gods 267 Spring Morning: Missive 329