The Road to Amber

Volume 6: The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny

by Roger Zelazny

The last in a six-volume series Volume 6: The Road To Amber, the last in the series, covers the final five years of Zelazny's career in the early 1990s, when he reached for new ideas and continued familiar themes with stories such as "Godson" and "Godson: A Play in Three Acts," two more Wild Cards stories ("Concerto for Siren and Serotonin" and "The Long Sleep"), and a linked sequence of five Amber stories leading to planned but unwritten Amber novels.

Table of Contents

Introductions

• 11 Roger Zelazny (by Jane Lindskold)
• 19 Remembering Roger (by Gerald Hausman)
• 25 The Trickster (by Gardner Dozois)

Stories

• 35 Godson
• 61 Godson: A Play in Three Acts
• 117 Come Back to the Killing Ground, Alice, My Love (series: Kalifriki)
• 163 Prince of the Powers of This World
• 171 The Long Crawl of Hugh Glass
• 203 Tunnel Vision
• 205 Epithalamium
• 227 Forever After: Preludes and Postlude
• 275 Lady of Steel
• 277 The Three Descents of Jeremy Baker
• 285 The Sleeper: Character Outline (series: Wild Cards)
• 289 Concerto for Siren and Serotonin (series: Wild Cards)
• 339 The Long Sleep (series: Wild Cards)

Amber

• 374 Amber Map
• 375 Prolog to Trumps of Doom
• 379 The Road to Amber
• 383 The Great Amber Questionnaire
• 391 A Secret of Amber (with Ed Greenwood)
• 395 The Salesman's Tale
• 409 Blue Horse, Dancing Mountains
• 415 The Shroudling and the Guisel
• 427 Coming to a Cord
• 435 Hall of Mirrors

Articles

• by Roger Zelazny
• 455 On Writing Horror After Reading Clive Barker
• 457 "When It Comes It's Wonderful": Art versus Craft in Writing
• 471 Warriors and Dreams
• by Christopher S. Kovacs, MD
• 479 Fallen Books and Other Subtle Clues in Zelazny's A Night in the Lonesome October
• 489 Suspended in Literature: Patterns and Allusions in The Chronicles of Amber
• 515 "...And Call Me Roger": The Literary Life of Roger Zelazny, Part 6

Curiosities

• 571 Sandow's Shadow (Outline) (series: Francis Sandow)
• 581 Shadowland (Outline) (series: Shadowjack)
• 589 Dysonized Biologicals (Outline)
• 593 Donnerjack, of Virtù: A Fable for the Machine Age (Outline)

Celebration

• 601 A Zelazny Timeline
• 611 Z-World (by Michael Whelan)
• 623 The Quintessential Roger Zelazny
• 627 Isle of Regret (by Trent Zelazny)
• 631 In Memoriam: Roger Zelazny (by George R. R. Martin)

Songs (in "Godson: A Play in Three Acts")

• 62 My Given Name Is Death
• 65 Why Do Little Boys Lie?
• 70 It's Rough Being a Bike
• 75 Be a Doctor
• 79 Why's Good-bye So Easy for Him?
• 80 Remembering
• 81 Oh, How the Dying Goes On
• 85 Oh, Wondrous Weed
• 93 The Man Who Went Away
• 97 Betrayed
• 107 Let's Do It
• 111 Save That Quarterback

Poetry

• 114 Our Own Piece of the Sky
• 115 The Appetite and Rising Sun
• 116 Cry of the Needy
• 165 What Child Is This?
• 170 Storm
• 200 Walking, of Course
• 202 Spinning the Day Through My Head
• 224 Paranoid Game
• 226 The God and Frustrate Shrine
• 269 Ikhnaton's Hymn to the Sun
• 273 The Rational Gods
• 337 Spring Morning: Missive

Michael Whelan