This Mortal Mountain

Edited by David G. Grubbs, Christopher S. Kovacs and Ann Crimmins. Cover art by Michael Whelan.

The third in a six-volume series, Volume 3: This Mortal Mountain contains Zelazny's short works from the late 1960s and early 1970s, Zelazny's breadth of interests developed into a variety of styles displayed in such rich stories as "This Mortal Mountain," "The Steel General," "Damnation Alley," "The Man Who Loved the Faioli," and the Hugo and Nebula-nominated "The Engine at Heartspring's Center". 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:

Introductions

• Of Meetings and Partings (by Neil Gaiman)
• On Roger Zelazny (by David G. Hartwell)

Stories

• This Mortal Mountain
• The Man Who Loved the Faioli
• Angel, Dark Angel
• The Hounds of Sorrow
• The Window Washer
• Damnation Alley
• The Last Inn on the Road (with Dannie Plachta)
• A Hand Across the Galaxy
• The Insider (as by Philip H. Sexart)
• Heritage
• He That Moves
• Corrida
• Dismal Light (series: Francis Sandow)
• Song of the Blue Baboon
• Stowaway
• Here There Be Dragons
• Way Up High
• The Steel General
• Come to Me Not in Winter's White (by Harlan Ellison™ and Roger Zelazny)
• The Year of the Good Seed (with Dannie Plachta)
• The Man at the Corner of Now and Forever
• My Lady of the Diodes
• Alas! Alas! This Woeful Fate
• Sun's Trophy Stirring
• Add Infinite Item
• The Game of Blood and Dust
• The Force That Through the Circuit Drives the Current
• No Award
• Is There a Demon Lover in the House?
• The Engine at Heartspring's Center

Articles

• Tomorrow Stuff
• Science Fiction and How It Got That Way
• Self-Interview
• The Genre: A Geological Survey
• A Burnt-Out Case?
• Ideas, Digressions and Daydreams: The Amazing Science Fiction Machine
• Musings on Lord of Light
• "...And Call Me Roger": The Literary Life of Roger Zelazny, Part 3

Curiosities

• Family Tree from Creatures of Light and Darkness
• Guns of Avalon: deleted sex scene
• Bridge of Ashes (Outline)
• Doorways in the Sand (Summary)

Poetry

• Lover's Valediction: Forbidding Day's Sacrament
• Song (The Leaves are Gone)
• Fire, Snakes & the Moon
• Lobachevsky's Eyes
• Beyond the River of the Blessed
• Chorus Mysticus
• Permanent Mood
• Maitreya
• Tryptych
• Avalanches
• Somewhere a Piece of Colored Light
• We Are the Legions of Hellwell
• Awakening
• Night Thoughts
• Paintpot
• Reflection from an Oriental Ashtray
• T. S. Eliot
• Wall
• Morning with Music
• I Walked Beyond the Mirror
• Museum Moods
• Sentiments with Numbers (second half of Museum Moods)
• Storm and Sunrise
• Oh, the Moon Comes on Like a Genie
• Between You & I
• Words
• Augury
• Pyramid
• Thundershoon
• What Is Left When the Soul is Sold
• LP Me Thee
• The Thing That Cries in the Night
• Dim
• Dark Horse Shadow
• Missolonghi Hillside
• Ducks
• Lamentations of the Venusian Pensioner
• reply
• Testament
• Sonnet, Anyone?
• Philip K. Dick