[The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny 06] • The Road to Amber

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