''Unicorn Variations'' is a collection of stories and essays by American author
Roger Zelazny
Roger Joseph Zelazny (May 13, 1937 – June 14, 1995) was an American poet and writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels, best known for ''The Chronicles of Amber''. He won the Nebula Award three times (out of 14 nomin ...
, published in 1983.
Contents
*"Introduction"
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Unicorn Variation
"Unicorn Variation" is a 1981 fantasy story by American writer Roger Zelazny. It was first published in ''Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine''.
Plot summary
In an abandoned saloon, a man and a unicorn play chess. The fate of humanity is at s ...
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*"The Last of the Wild Ones" (a follow-up short story to the earlier story "Devil Car")
*"Recital"
*"The Naked Matador"
*"The Parts That Are Only Glimpsed: Three Reflexes" (essay)
*"Dismal Light" (a follow-up short story to the novel ''
Isle of the Dead'')
*"Go Starless in the Night"
*"But Not the Herald"
*"A Hand Across the Galaxy"
*"The Force That Through the Circuit Drives the Current" (a short story that plays with themes developed in "Home is the Hangman")
*"Home is the Hangman" (also in the collection ''
My Name Is Legion'')
*"Fire and /or Ice"
*"Exeunt Omnes"
*"A Very Good Year"
*"My Lady of the Diodes"
*"And I Only Am Escaped to Tell Thee"
*"The Horses of Lir"
*"The Night Has 999 Eyes"
*"Angel, Dark Angel"
*"Walpurgisnacht"
*"The George Business"
*"Some Science Fiction Parameters: A Biased View" (essay)
References
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Short story collections by Roger Zelazny
1983 short story collections
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