The Road to Amber

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

The last in a six-volume series Volume 6: The Road To Amber, the last in the series, covers the final five years of Zelazny's career in the early 1990s, when he reached for new ideas and continued familiar themes with stories such as "Godson" and "Godson: A Play in Three Acts," two more Wild Cards stories ("Concerto for Siren and Serotonin" and "The Long Sleep"), and a linked sequence of five Amber stories leading to planned but unwritten Amber novels.

Contents:

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 (series: 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 (series: Wild Cards)
• Concerto for Siren and Serotonin (series: 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

Curiosities

• Sandow's Shadow (Outline) (series: Francis Sandow)
• Shadowland (Outline) (series: 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