Power & Light

Edited by David G. Grubbs, Christopher S. Kovacs and Ann Crimmins. Cover art by Michael Whelan.

The second in a six-volume series, Volume 2: Power & Light covers the mid 1960s, Zelazny's most prolific period, where he continued to incorporate mainstream literary qualities and added a wealth of mythological elements into powerful stories such as "The Furies," "For a Breath I Tarry," "This Moment of the Storm," "Comes Now the Power," "Auto-Da-Fé," and the Hugo-winning novel ...And Call Me Conrad. The stories in this series are enriched by editors' notes and Zelazny's own words, taken from his many essays, describing why he wrote the stories and what he thought about them in retrospect.

Contents:

Intros

• Lyricism and Warmth (by Kristine Kathryn Rusch)
• A Singular Being (by Walter Jon Williams)

Stories

• The Furies
• Lucifer
• The Salvation of Faust
• The New Pleasure
• The Monster and the Maiden
• For a Breath I Tarry
• Passage to Dilfar (series: Dilvish 1 of 11)
• Thelinde's Song (series: Dilvish 2 of 11)
• The Bells of Shoredan (series: Dilvish 3 of 11)
• A Knight for Merytha (series: Dilvish 4 of 11)
• The Injured
• Devil Car(series: Jenny/Murdoch)
• Of Time and the Yan
• The Drawing
• This Moment of the Storm
• Comes Now the Power
• Divine Madness
• But Not the Herald
• Late, Late Show
• Love Is an Imaginary Number
• The Keys to December
• The House of the Hanged Man
• Death and the Executioner
• Auto-Da-Fé
• The Juan's Thousandth
• There Shall Be No Moon!
• Through a Glass, Greenly
• Time of Night in the 7th Room
• ...And Call Me Conrad, Part One
• Synopsis of Part One
• ...And Call Me Conrad, Part Two

Articles

• Guest of Honor Speech, Ozarkon2
• On Writing and Stories
• Shadows (speech)
• "...And Call Me Roger": The Literary Life of Roger Zelazny, Part 2

Poetry

• Thoughts of the Jupiterian Frantifier Fish
• Holy Thursday
• The Men of Westrim
• Magic Fire
• The Wind Doth Blow
• Blondel de Nesle
• Chou de Mal
• The Thing That on the Highways
• Indian Days in KY
• Antode to Winter
• "...Good Old Martian Soldier..."
• Devices of Heraldry
• Line Written Concerning theAcceptability of Alcohol
• Brahman Trimurti, A Modern Hymn to theTrinity
• Appendix B
• Bodhisattva
• Faust Before Twelve
• Apocalypse of a Summer's Night
• On My Giving Up of Regular Metrics
• I Never Met a Traveller from an Antique Land
• The Last