''The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth, and Other Stories'' is a collection of science fiction short stories by American writer
Roger Zelazny. It was published in 1971 by
Doubleday.
Contents
Stories in the original edition:
* "
The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth", winner of the 1965
Nebula Award for Best Novelette
* "The Keys to December"
*
Devil Car
* "
A Rose for Ecclesiastes
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"
* "The Monster and the Maiden"
* "Collector's Fever"
* "This Mortal Mountain"
* "This Moment of the Storm"
* "The Great Slow Kings"
* "A Museum Piece"
* "Divine Madness"
* "Corrida"
* "Love Is An Imaginary Number"
*
The Man Who Loved the Faioli
* "Lucifer"
Stories added in later editions:
*"The Furies"
*"The Graveyard Heart"
Synopses
The title story, about
extreme sports
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men 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
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with a mountain tens of kilometers high, extending far beyond any breathable atmosphere.
"This Moment of the Storm" is about a constable on a distant colony planet, whose duties include the use of armed drone aircraft.
Reception
Dave Langford
David Rowland Langford (born 10 April 1953) is a British author, editor, and critic, largely active within the science fiction field. He publishes the science fiction fanzine and newsletter ''Ansible'', and holds the all-time record for most ...
reviewed ''The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth'' for ''
White Dwarf
A white dwarf is a stellar core remnant composed mostly of electron-degenerate matter. A white dwarf is very dense: its mass is comparable to the Sun's, while its volume is comparable to the Earth's. A white dwarf's faint luminosity comes fro ...
'' #87, and stated that "there are enough goodies here to prove this author had magic in his typewriter, for a while..."
Reviews
*Review by Charlie Brown (1971) in ''
Locus'', #102 December 10, 1971
*Review by Douglas Barbour (1973) in ''Riverside Quarterly'', August 1973
*Review
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Given name
* Erman Bulucu (born 1989), Turkish footballer
* Erman Eltemur (born 1993), Turkish karateka
* Erman Güraçar (born 1974), Turkish footballer
* Erman Kılıç (born 1983), Turkish footballer
* Erman Kunter (b ...
by Joachim Körber? (1981) in ''SF Perry Rhodan Magazin'', 2/81
*Review
erman Erman Rašiti may refer to:
Given name
* Erman Bulucu (born 1989), Turkish footballer
* Erman Eltemur (born 1993), Turkish karateka
* Erman Güraçar (born 1974), Turkish footballer
* Erman Kılıç (born 1983), Turkish footballer
* Erman Kunter (b ...
by uncredited (1982) in ''Reclams Science Fiction Führer''
*Review by K. V. Bailey (1987) in ''Paperback Inferno'', #66
*Review by Andy Sawyer (1988) in ''Paperback Inferno'', #70
*Review by Graham Sleight (2011) in ''
Locus'', #611 December 2011
References
Sources
*
Short story collections by Roger Zelazny
1971 short story collections
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