Nine Black Doves
Edited by David G. Grubbs, Christopher S. Kovacs and Ann Crimmins. Cover art by Michael Whelan.
The fifth in a six-volume series, Volume 5: Nine Black Doves contains Zelazny's short works from the 1980s, when Zelazny's mature craft produced the Hugo-winning and Nebula-nominated stories, "24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai" and "Permafrost," and other entertaining stories such as "Kalifriki of the Thread," "Dilvish, the Damned," and his first two Wild Cards stories about Croyd Crenson, "The Sleeper" and "Ashes to Ashes."
Contents:
Introductions
- Considering Cows (by Melinda Snodgrass)
- The Two Rogers (by George R. R. Martin)
Stories
- Permafrost
- Itself Surprised (series: Fred Saberhagen's Berserker universe)
- Mana from Heaven (series: Larry Niven's The Magic Goes Away universe
- Devil and the Dancer (series: Dilvish 9 of 11)
- Garden of Blood (series: Dilvish 10 of 11)
- Dilvish, the Damned (series: Dilvish 11 of 11)
- LOKI 7281
- Dreadsong
- Dayblood
- The Bands of Titan
- Night Kings
- Quest's End
- The Sleeper (series: Wild Cards)
- Ashes to Ashes (series: Wild Cards)
- Deadboy Donner and the Filstone Cup
- Kalifriki of the Thread (series: 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
Curiosities
- Head Count
- Changeling (Film Outline)
- Coils (Outline)
- Alien Speedway (Outline)
- The Ahriman Factor (Outline)
Poetry
- 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
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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.
