Bridge of Ashes
HE WAS THE GREATEST TELEPATH THE WORLD HAD EVER KNOWN
He was Archimedes, Leonardo da Vinci, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and a Children of the Earth terrorist all rolled into one...
He was Dennis Guise, idiot child, whose mind had been suffocated
and nearly obliterated by a universe of other people's thoughts...
And he was Earth's last hope against an enemy that had created the
human race but would destroy it all again if Dennis Archimedes Leonardo
Jean-Jacques Humanity Guise could not meet them on their own terms
and win...
BRIDGE OF ASHES
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.