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Unicorn Variations
A Science Fiction Short Story Collection by Roger Zelazny
Subgenres & Tropes:
- Short Story Collection,
- Time Travel,
- Alternate Reality
This book is for you if you're into...
- Chess matches with unicorns and other surreal creatures
- Short stories mixing time travel, sentient cars, and jealous computers
- Award-winning science fiction with playful, inventive premises
Collected here are twenty-one of Roger Zelazny's brilliant short stories chosen from throughout his career.
The two longest stories "Home is the Hangman" and "Unicorn Variation" both won the coveted Hugo Award.
Chess playing unicorns, Time travel, alternate realities, evil sentient cars, jealous computers, enterprising dragons, and space exploration are just a few of the subjects Zelazny explores in this exceptional collection.
Roger Zelazny was a science fiction and fantasy writer, a six time Hugo Award winner, and a three time Nebula Award Winner.
He published more than forty novels in his lifetime.
His first novel This Immortal, serialized in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction under the title ...And Call Me Conrad, won the Hugo Award for best novel.
Lord of Light, his third novel, also won the Hugo award and was nominated for the Nebula award.
He died at age 58 from cancer.
Zelazny was posthumously inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2010.
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