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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Hardback)

ISBN
  
0-671-49449-X

Originally published
  
1983

Publisher
  
Genres
  
Science Fiction, Essay


Publication date
  
1983

Pages
  
213 pp

OCLC
  
9827688

Author
  
Country
  
United States of America

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Nominations
  
Locus Award for Best Collection

Similar
  
Roger Zelazny books, Science Fiction books

Unicorn Variations is a collection of stories and essays by American author Roger Zelazny, published in 1983. The title story, "Unicorn Variation", was written as a result of Zelazny having been asked to contribute to two different upcoming anthologies — one collecting stories set in bars, and one collecting stories about unicorns. When Zelazny mentioned these requests to his close friend George R. R. Martin, Martin told Zelazny of a third upcoming anthology — one which would collect stories about chess — and jokingly suggested that Zelazny write a story about playing chess against a unicorn in a bar, so that he could sell the story three times. Zelazny did just that and then went on to win a Hugo Award for the story.

Contents

  • "Introduction"
  • "Unicorn Variation"
  • "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 the novella "Home is the Hangman")
  • "Home is the Hangman" (initially published 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

    Unicorn Variations Wikipedia


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