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Roger Joseph Zelazny (May 13, 1937 – June 14, 1995) [2] was an American fantasy and science fiction writer known for his short stories and novels, best known for The Chronicles of Amber.
Nebula Award Stories 3 is an anthology of award-winning science fiction short works edited by Roger Zelazny. It was first published in the United Kingdom in hardcover by Gollancz in November 1968. The first American edition was published by Doubleday in December of the same year.
The title story, about extreme sportsmen who fish for "sea monsters" in the oceans of Venus, won the first Nebula Award for Best Novelette in 1965. "This Mortal Mountain" is also about future extreme sports, concerning mountain climbing on a planet with a mountain tens of kilometers high, extending far beyond any breathable atmosphere.
It was awarded the 1968 Hugo Award for Best Novel, [1] and nominated for a Nebula Award in the same category. [2] Two chapters from the novel were published as novelettes in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction – "Dawn" in April 1967, and "Death and the Executioner" in June 1967. Zelazny noted that Lord of Light was written so that it ...
The story is set on Venus at a time when mankind has achieved routine travel to the various planets of the solar system. Unlike the actual planet, Zelazny's Venus is Earth-like, offering breathable air, water-filled oceans and native fauna, one of which is the fictional Ichthyform Leviosaurus Levianthus, a 300-foot-long denizen of the Venusian oceans commonly called "Ikky".
This Immortal (1966) (initially serialized in abridged form in 1965 as ...And Call Me Conrad, the author's preferred title) – Hugo Award winner, 1966 [7]; The Dream Master (1966) (an expansion of the novella "He Who Shapes" [1965]); the film Dreamscape began from Zelazny's outline which he based on "He Who Shapes"/The Dream Master, but he was not involved in the film after they bought the ...
The Nebula Award for Best Short Story is a literary award assigned each year by Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) for science fiction or fantasy short stories. A work of fiction is defined by the organization as a short story if it is less than 7,500 words; awards are also given out for longer works in the categories of ...
Isle of the Dead is a science fiction novel by American writer Roger Zelazny, published in 1969 with cover art by Leo and Diane Dillon. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1969, [1] and won the French Prix Apollo in 1972. The title refers to the several paintings by Swiss-German painter Arnold Böcklin.