The Road to Amber(2009)

Roger ZelaznyAlice N.S. LewisMichael Whelan

The last in a six-volume series The Road To Amber, 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
59 Godson: A Play in Three Acts
113 Come Back to the Killing Ground, Alice, My Love (series: Kalifriki)
157 Prince of the Powers of This World
165 The Long Crawl of Hugh Glass
197 Tunnel Vision
199 Epithalamium
221 Forever After: Preludes and Postlude
269 Lady of Steel
271 The Three Descents of Jeremy Baker
279 The Sleeper: Character Outline (series: Wild Cards)
283 Concerto for Siren and Serotonin (series: Wild Cards)
331 The Long Sleep(§ Wild Cards)

Amber
364 Amber Map
365 Prolog to Trumps of Doom
369 The Road to Amber
373 The Great Amber Questionnaire
381 A Secret of Amber (with Ed Greenwood)
385 The Salesman's Tale
399 Blue Horse, Dancing Mountains
405 The Shroudling and the Guisel
417 Coming to a Cord
425 Hall of Mirrors

Articles
445 On Writing Horror After Reading Clive Barker
447 "When It Comes It's Wonderful": Art versus Craft in Writing
461 Warriors and Dreams
469 "...And Call Me Roger": The Literary Life of Roger Zelazny, Part 6

Curiosities
523 Sandow's Shadow (outline) (series: Francis Sandow)
533 Shadowland (outline) (series: Shadowjack)
541 Dysonized Biologicals (outline)
545 Donnerjack, of Virtù: A Fable for the Machine Age (outline)

Celebration
555 A Zelazny Timeline
563 Z-World (by Michael Whelan)
575 The Quintessential Roger Zelazny
579 Isle of Regret (by Trent Zelazny)
583 In Memoriam: Roger Zelazny (by George R. R. Martin)

Songs (in "Godson: A Play in Three Acts")
60 My Given Name Is Death
63 Why Do Little Boys Lie?
68 It's Rough Being a Bike
72 Be a Doctor
76 Why's Good-bye So Easy for Him?
77 Remembering
78 Oh, How the Dying Goes On
82 Oh, Wondrous Weed
90 The Man Who Went Away
93 Betrayed
103 Let's Do It
107 Save That Quarterback

Poetry
110 Our Own Piece of the Sky
111 The Appetite and Rising Sun
112 Cry of the Needy
159 What Child Is This?
164 Storm
194 Walking, of Course
196 Spinning the Day Through My Head
218 Paranoid Game
220 The God and Frustrate Shrine
263 Ikhnaton's Hymn to the Sun
267 The Rational Gods
329 Spring Morning: Missive