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Coils

by Roger Zelazny, Fred Saberhagen
Coils by Roger Zelazny, Fred Saberhagen
★ 6.00 / 1
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Illustrations by Ron Miller.

The Ultimate mind game, leading through a maze of espionage, corruption and terror.

Donald Belpatri must unlock the secret sins of his past. His beautiful young lover has been kidnapped, and only by journeying back through the mists of memory and into waking nightmare can he save her. He will have to rediscover the extraordinary and dangerous power he possesses... the power to cross over the interface between mind and computer.

Years ago, the Angra Energy Corporation exploited Belpatri, using his powers to satisfy their greed. Now, Angra Energy wants him back, and they'll hold his woman hostage until they have their man. But this time Donald is determined to fight Angra – and win. Once again voyaging down through the spirals of mind into the coils of computer consciousness, he will meet the enemy on the battleground of his brain.

All the elemental forces of body and mind clash as Belpatri wages war on two fronts – facing the violence of Angra's merciless hitmen and the shattering, unknown impulses of the computer's dark infinities.

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Release date: 1982

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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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