This mortal mountain : volume 3 : the collected stories of Roger Zelazny

The third in a six-volume series, Volume 3: This Mortal Mountain contains Zelazny's short works from the late 1960s and early 1970s, Zelazny's breadth of interests developed into a variety of styles displayed in such rich stories as "This Mortal Mountain," "The Steel General," "Damnation Alley," "The Man Who Loved the Faioli," and the Hugo and Nebula-nominated "The Engine at Heartspring's Center". The stories in this series are enriched by editors' notes and Zelazny's own words, taken from his many essays, describing why he wrote the stories and what he thought about them in retrospect. Of meetings and partings / by Neil Gaiman On Roger Zelazny / by David G. Hartwell STORIES. This mortal mountain The man who loved the Faioli Angel, dark angel The hounds of sorrow The window washer Damnation alley The last inn on the road (with Dannie Plachta) A hand across the galaxy The insider (as by Philip H. Sexart) Heritage He that moves Corrida Dismal light (a Francis Sandow story) Song of the blue baboon Stowaway Here there be dragons Way up high The steel general Come to me not in winter's white (by Harlan Ellison and Roger Zelazny) The year of the good seed (with Dannie Plachta) The man at the corner of Now and Forever My lady of the diodes Alas! Alas! This woeful fate Sun's trophy stirring Add infinite item The game of blood and dust The force that through the circuit drives the current No award Is there a demon lover in the house? The engine at Heartspring's Center. POETRY. Lover's valediction: Forbidding Day's sacrament Song (The leaves are gone) Fire, snakes, & the moon Lobachevsky's eyes Beyond the river of the blessed Chorus mysticus Permanent mood Maitreya Tryptych Avalanches Somewhere a piece of colored light We are the legions of Hellwell Awakening Night thoughts Paintpot Reflection from an oriental ashtray T.S. Eliot Wall Morning with music I walked beyond the mirror Museum moods Sentiments with numbers (second half of Museum moods) Storm and sunrise Oh, the moon comes on like a genie Between you & I Words Augury Pyramid Thundershoon What is left when the soul is sold LP me thee The thing that cries in the night Dim Dark horse shadow Mossolonghi Hillside Ducks Lamentations of the Venusian Pensioner reply Testament Sonnet, anyone? Philip K. Dick. ARTICLES. Tomorrow stuff Science fiction and how it got that way Self-interview The genre: a geological survey A burnt-out case? Ideas, digressions and daydreams: the amazing science fiction machine Musings on "Lord of Light" "...And call me Roger": the literary life of Roger Zelazny, part 3. CURIOSITIES. Family tree from "Creatures of Light and Darkness" The guns of Avalon: deleted sex scene (from the Amber series) Bridge of ashes (outline) Doorways in the sand (summary) Publication history Acknowledgments. "This six volume collection includes all of Zelazny's know short fiction and poetry, three excerpts of important novels, a selection of non-fiction essays, and a few curiosities."--V. 1, p. 5 This Mortal Mountain covers the late 1960s and early 1970s, when Zelazny's breadth of interests developed into a variety of styles