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Here's the Final List: 1. For a Breath I Tarry – A Shropshire Lad by A.E. Housman 2. The Last Defender of Camelot – Sir Galahad by ...

Stupid April for only having 30 days. It really ought to have 31, just to match A Night in the Lonesome October a little better.  And after...

This is one of the stories where the poem came first. Love is an Imaginary Number isn't one of Zelazny's best known or most loved s...

If Eye of Cat is the story I don't like as much it deserves, then Donnerjack is its antithesis, my affection for it out of proportion (...

 Moving right along. Footloose and fancy free.  Today we have The Courts of Chaos . Specifically, the segment where Corwin traces his own pa...

Moving through the backlog. Today, we have Deus Irae (among others, heh) I mentioned in my review that I can take or leave the book, but I ...

I don't know if April is really the cruelest month, but it's certainly the busiest for me, just by the nature of my job. Consequentl...

This is, in large part a concession to my wife who wanted this poem as part of this circle, though Whitman certainly deserves a spot due to ...

I thought this would be an easy one. Roadmarks . The Road Not Taken , right? Easy Peasy. (Though Baudelaire or Whitman also have their own c...

Here's a story that I haven't even reviewed yet. Zelazny himself didn't like it and I'm kind of surprised it ever saw the li...

I tend to use my copy of the Collected Stories as a my go-to reference for the shorter works. I have dozens (hundreds?) of Zelazny paperback...

Today we have Isle of the Dead .  I like Francis Sandow, in part because he breaks away from the Zelazny archetype . He's an avatar of S...

Running out of time on this holiday weekend (I'm a bad blogger, I know) so I'm posting this as a placeholder until I learn better ti...

  Today we have  24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai , one of the great stories of Zelazny's final years. In it, Mari returns to Japan from...

Whew! Just under the wire! Today’s story is Home is the Hangman, one of Zelazny’s finest novellas. best of the Legion stories.   A deep spac...

I plan these things out ahead of time. For the longest time, I had the Waste Lands as the poem for The Changing Land , but I just couldn...

I do love The Guns of Avalon. My favorite of the Amber books. So many excellent scenes, memorable characters, quotable lines. I could go in...

 I do love Jack of Shadows, especially this cover. But, as with yesterday's installment, This Immortal, I don't like the title overm...

Today's story is ...And Call me Conrad . I didn't read it until I had already read the rest of Zelazny's better known works. It...