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Gone to Earth

Author's Choice Monthly #27 / 29
by Roger Zelazny
Gone to Earth (Author's Choice Monthly #27) by Roger Zelazny
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A collection of short stories, selected by author.

  • Introduction: Themes, Variations, and Imitations (1991)
  • Deadboy Donner and the Filstone Cup (1988)
  • Kalifriki of the Thread (1989)
  • Devil Car (1965)
  • The Last of the Wild Ones (1981)
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Category: Science Fiction, Short Stories
Release date: 1991

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Roger Zelazny

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.

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Between 1962 and 1969 Zelazny worked for the Social Security Administration in Cleveland and then in Baltimore, spending his evenings writing science fiction. He deliberately progressed from short-shorts to novelettes to novellas and finally to novel-length works by 1965. On 1969 he quit to become a full-time writer, and thereafter concentrated on writing novels in order to maintain his income.

Zelazny was married twice, in 1964 in 1966.

Zelazny was considered one of the leading lights of the ”New Wave” movement in science fiction in the 1960s. He incorporated elements from literary novels of the mainstream into his fiction, and experimented with allusion, lyricism, and mythic imagery. His stories often involved characters from myth, depicted in the modern world. Zelazny's fiction was also highly influenced by wisecracking detective fiction. He was also apt to include modern elements, such as cigarettes, in his fantasy worlds.

A frequent theme is gods or people who become gods. Another recurrent theme is the ”absent father” (or father-figure).

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Author's Choice Monthly

Author's Choice Monthly consists of twenty-nine books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.

The Old Funny Stuff (Author's Choice Monthly #1)
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Unthreatened by the Morning Light (Author's Choice Monthly #2)
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Daily Voices (Author's Choice Monthly #3)
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Nine Hard Questions About the Nature of the Universe (Author's Choice Monthly #4)
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Into the Eighth Decade (Author's Choice Monthly #5)
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Peripheral Vision (Author's Choice Monthly #6)
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Neon Twilight (Author's Choice Monthly #7)
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Swatting at the Cosmos (Author's Choice Monthly #8)
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Heroines (Author's Choice Monthly #9)
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Tales from a Vanished Country (Author's Choice Monthly #10)
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Skyrocket Steele Conquers the Universe and Other Media Tales (Author's Choice Monthly #11)
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True Minds (Author's Choice Monthly #12)
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Ad Statum Perspicuum (Author's Choice Monthly #13)
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Legacy of Fire (Author's Choice Monthly #14)
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Most Emphatically Not SF, Almost (Author's Choice Monthly #15)
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State of Grace (Author's Choice Monthly #16)
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Ma Qui and Other Phantoms (Author's Choice Monthly #17)
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Stories By Mama Lansdale's Youngest Boy (Author's Choice Monthly #18)
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Two That Came True (Author's Choice Monthly #19)
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A Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditions (Author's Choice Monthly #20)
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God's Nose (Author's Choice Monthly #21)
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Hedgework and Guessery (Author's Choice Monthly #22)
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It's Been Fun (Author's Choice Monthly #23)
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The Naked Flesh of Feeling (Author's Choice Monthly #24)
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The Alien Heart (Author's Choice Monthly #25)
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Myths, Legends, and True History (Author's Choice Monthly #26)
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Gone to Earth (Author's Choice Monthly #27)
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Wong's Lost and Found Emporium and Other Oddities (Author's Choice Monthly #28)
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Moonstone and Tiger-Eye (Author's Choice Monthly #29)
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