Power & Light
Edited by David G. Grubbs, Christopher S. Kovacs and Ann Crimmins. Cover art by Michael Whelan.
The second in a six-volume series, Volume 2: Power & Light covers the mid 1960s, Zelazny's most prolific period, where he continued to incorporate mainstream literary qualities and added a wealth of mythological elements into powerful stories such as "The Furies," "For a Breath I Tarry," "This Moment of the Storm," "Comes Now the Power," "Auto-Da-Fé," and the Hugo-winning novel ...And Call Me Conrad. 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.
Contents:
Intros
- Lyricism and Warmth (by Kristine Kathryn Rusch)
- A Singular Being (by Walter Jon Williams)
Stories
- The Furies
- Lucifer
- The Salvation of Faust
- The New Pleasure
- The Monster and the Maiden
- For a Breath I Tarry
- Passage to Dilfar (series: Dilvish 1 of 11)
- Thelinde's Song (series: Dilvish 2 of 11)
- The Bells of Shoredan (series: Dilvish 3 of 11)
- A Knight for Merytha (series: Dilvish 4 of 11)
- The Injured
- Devil Car(series: Jenny/Murdoch)
- Of Time and the Yan
- The Drawing
- This Moment of the Storm
- Comes Now the Power
- Divine Madness
- But Not the Herald
- Late, Late Show
- Love Is an Imaginary Number
- The Keys to December
- The House of the Hanged Man
- Death and the Executioner
- Auto-Da-Fé
- The Juan's Thousandth
- There Shall Be No Moon!
- Through a Glass, Greenly
- Time of Night in the 7th Room
- ...And Call Me Conrad, Part One
- Synopsis of Part One
- ...And Call Me Conrad, Part Two
Articles
- Guest of Honor Speech, Ozarkon2
- On Writing and Stories
- Shadows (speech)
- "...And Call Me Roger": The Literary Life of Roger Zelazny, Part 2
Poetry
- Thoughts of the Jupiterian Frantifier Fish
- Holy Thursday
- The Men of Westrim
- Magic Fire
- The Wind Doth Blow
- Blondel de Nesle
- Chou de Mal
- The Thing That on the Highways
- Indian Days in KY
- Antode to Winter
- "...Good Old Martian Soldier..."
- Devices of Heraldry
- Line Written Concerning theAcceptability of Alcohol
- Brahman Trimurti, A Modern Hymn to theTrinity
- Appendix B
- Bodhisattva
- Faust Before Twelve
- Apocalypse of a Summer's Night
- On My Giving Up of Regular Metrics
- I Never Met a Traveller from an Antique Land
- The Last
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Roger Zelazny
Roger Zelazny (1937–1995) was an American writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels. He won the Nebula award three times and the Hugo award six times, including two Hugos for novels This Immortal (1965) and the novel Lord of Light (1967).
Zelazny was born in Ohio, the only child of Polish immigrant Joseph Zelazny and Irish-American Josephine Sweet. In high school, Roger Zelazny was the editor of the school newspaper and joined the Creative Writing Club. He was accepted to Columbia University in New York to study English and specialized in Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, graduating with an M.A. in 1962.
The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny
"These six hardcover volumes contain all of Roger Zelazny's short fiction and poetry that we could find, however obscurely published, along with a number of unpublished works retrieved from Zelazny's archived papers. We also included shorter early versions of several novels, two novel excerpts and a few of Zelazny's articles on topics of interest to him."
The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny consists of six books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
