A number of people have asked for more details about NESFA's Roger Zelazny project. Here's a quick summary of what we are doing. (Note that many aspects of the project are not settled, so please do not depend on any detail mentioned here.)
We plan to print a complete collection of Roger Zelazny's short fiction and poetry, in (probably) five hardcover volumes. We expect to include all published pieces we can find, however obscurely published, and a number of unpublished works retrieved from Zelazny's archived papers. We also expect to include the shorter early versions of several novels and a few novel excerpts that were published independently as short works.
The order will most likely be chronological, generally by publication date. A few odd works, along with all the unpublished items, will be inserted near other works written at the same time. Most pieces will have forewords and/or afterwords of a literary or biographical nature.
We will commission introductions and/or essays from family, friends and writers who were fans of Roger Zelazny's work. One of our editors has written some biographical essays that will be spread among the volumes.
And we hope to package it in a coherent way, so the books will visually form a single set. There will also an extensive bibliography, most likely published separately.
If anyone possesses something (story, poem, essay, correspondence from Zelazny) that they think may be unique or rare, we would very much like to obtain a copy for potential inclusion in this collection.
Requests
- If anyone knows of a copy of an unpublished Zelazny story named "Checkup", we would like to obtain a copy. It was written in 1975 for a special "children's future" issue of a UNICEF quarterly publication. We have records of it being paid for, but no trace of the story has surfaced.