Power & Light

Volume 2: The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny

by Roger Zelazny

The second in a six-volume series, Volume 2: Power & Light covers the mid 1960s, Zelazny's most prolific period, where he continued to incorporate mainstream literary qualities and added a wealth of mythological elements into powerful stories such as "The Furies," "For a Breath I Tarry," "This Moment of the Storm," "Comes Now the Power," "Auto-Da-Fé," and the Hugo-winning novel ...And Call Me Conrad. 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.

Table of Contents

Intros

• 11 Lyricism and Warmth (by Kristine Kathryn Rusch)
• 15 A Singular Being (by Walter Jon Williams)

Stories

• 23 The Furies
• 65 Lucifer
• 71 The Salvation of Faust
• 75 The New Pleasure
• 79 The Monster and the Maiden
• 81 For a Breath I Tarry
• 117 Passage to Dilfar (series: Dilvish 1 of 11)
• 123 Thelinde's Song (series: Dilvish 2 of 11)
• 131 The Bells of Shoredan (series: Dilvish 3 of 11)
• 149 A Knight for Merytha (series: Dilvish 4 of 11)
• 159 The Injured
• 163 Devil Car(series: Jenny/Murdoch)
• 181 Of Time and the Yan
• 185 The Drawing
• 189 This Moment of the Storm
• 221 Comes Now the Power
• 229 Divine Madness
• 237 But Not the Herald
• 241 Late, Late Show
• 247 Love Is an Imaginary Number
• 255 The Keys to December
• 279 The House of the Hanged Man
• 283 Death and the Executioner
• 331 Auto-Da-Fé
• 339 The Juan's Thousandth
• 349 There Shall Be No Moon!
• 361 Through a Glass, Greenly
• 365 Time of Night in the 7th Room
• 371 ...And Call Me Conrad, Part One
• 435 Synopsis of Part One
• 439 ...And Call Me Conrad, Part Two

Articles

• 511 Guest of Honor Speech, Ozarkon2
• 521 On Writing and Stories
• 525 Shadows (speech)
• 531 "...And Call Me Roger": The Literary Life of Roger Zelazny, Part 2

Poetry

• 61 Thoughts of the Jupiterian Frantifier Fish
• 64 Holy Thursday
• 123 The Men of Westrim
• 148 Magic Fire
• 153 The Wind Doth Blow
• 178 Blondel de Nesle
• 180 Chou de Mal
• 184 The Thing That on the Highways
• 188 Indian Days in KY
• 228 Antode to Winter
• 244 "...Good Old Martian Soldier..."
• 246 Devices of Heraldry
• 254 Line Written Concerning theAcceptability of Alcohol
• 324 Brahman Trimurti, A Modern Hymn to theTrinity
• 326 Appendix B
• 330 Bodhisattva
• 338 Faust Before Twelve
• 348 Apocalypse of a Summer's Night
• 360 On My Giving Up of Regular Metrics
• 438 I Never Met a Traveller from an Antique Land
• 508 The Last

Michael Whelan