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eor12. The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny Vol. 4
I've been working my way through this book in between other books and just finished it up. This volume covers the first period where Zelazny was primarily writing novels and the volume of his short work had dropped off somewhat. At this point he was a successful full time writer and basically everything he wrote sold somewhere. It was a sweet place to be and Roger knew and acknowledged it. There was a lot of good stuff in this volume. I liked the stand alone stories best. Even after he achieved success Roger was still pushing himself to try new techniques and approaches, it made for an interesting variety.
There is a fascinating aside in this volume of how the screenplay of Lord Of Light was used in the CIA plot to rescue embassy staffers from Iran during the hostage crisis (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_Light#Film_version for brief summary). I never knew that was the screenplay they were using as cover.
Only two more volumes to go, but I haven't purchased them yet, so it will be a while before I can get to them.
I've been working my way through this book in between other books and just finished it up. This volume covers the first period where Zelazny was primarily writing novels and the volume of his short work had dropped off somewhat. At this point he was a successful full time writer and basically everything he wrote sold somewhere. It was a sweet place to be and Roger knew and acknowledged it. There was a lot of good stuff in this volume. I liked the stand alone stories best. Even after he achieved success Roger was still pushing himself to try new techniques and approaches, it made for an interesting variety.
There is a fascinating aside in this volume of how the screenplay of Lord Of Light was used in the CIA plot to rescue embassy staffers from Iran during the hostage crisis (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_Light#Film_version for brief summary). I never knew that was the screenplay they were using as cover.
Only two more volumes to go, but I haven't purchased them yet, so it will be a while before I can get to them.
