Nine Black Doves

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

The fifth in a six-volume series, Volume 5: Nine Black Doves contains Zelazny's short works from the 1980s, when Zelazny's mature craft produced the Hugo-winning and Nebula-nominated stories, "24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai" and "Permafrost," and other entertaining stories such as "Kalifriki of the Thread," "Dilvish, the Damned," and his first two Wild Cards stories about Croyd Crenson, "The Sleeper" and "Ashes to Ashes."

Contents:

Introductions

• Considering Cows (by Melinda Snodgrass)
• The Two Rogers (by George R. R. Martin)

Stories

• Permafrost
• Itself Surprised (series: Fred Saberhagen's Berserker universe)
• Mana from Heaven (series: Larry Niven's The Magic Goes Away universe
• Devil and the Dancer (series: Dilvish 9 of 11)
• Garden of Blood (series: Dilvish 10 of 11)
• Dilvish, the Damned (series: Dilvish 11 of 11)
• LOKI 7281
• Dreadsong
• Dayblood
• The Bands of Titan
• Night Kings
• Quest's End
• The Sleeper (series: Wild Cards)
• Ashes to Ashes (series: Wild Cards)
• Deadboy Donner and the Filstone Cup
• Kalifriki of the Thread (series: Kalifriki)
• The Deadliest Game
• 24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai

Articles

• Constructing a Science Fiction Novel
• The Process of Composing
• Science Fiction Writing at Length
• Fantasy and Science Fiction: A Writer's View
• Beyond the Idea
• "...And Call Me Roger": The Literary Life of Roger Zelazny, Part 5

Curiosities

• Head Count
• Changeling (Film Outline)
• Coils (Outline)
• Alien Speedway (Outline)
• The Ahriman Factor (Outline)

Poetry

• The De-Synonymization of Winter
• Dreamscape
• Riptide
• 555-1212
• I, the Crooked Rose's Dream, Dumb-Sung Anatomie
• Hands
• To Spin Is Miracle Cat
• Evangel
• Song of the Ring
• Day of Doom
• Night of Fisting
• The Game's Thirteenth Strike
• Locker Room
• Song
• Nameless Grave By a Nameless Sea, Probably Greek
• Appendix C
• Evil Chasing Prayer