The doors of his face, the lamps of his mouth and other stories Roger Zelazny

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Fifteen journeys into the future of man.

From a fishing expedition under the oceans of Venus to an electrically haunted mountain on Mars where a human girl is living in a state of hibernation, he stories range from a few decades to a few millennia into the future….a future where man is living on new worlds, creating mechanical servants and even re-designing the form of his own body…

Here are strange, beautiful stories covering the full spectrum of the late Roger Zelazny’s remarkable talents. Zelazny’s rare ability to mix the dream-like, disturbing imagery of fantasy with the real-life hardware of science fiction is on full display. His vivid imagination and fine prose made him one of the most highly acclaimed writers in his field. Stories include: The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth (1965); The Keys to December (1966); Devil Car [Sam Murdock] (1965); A Rose for Ecclesiastes (1963); The Monster and the Maiden (1964); Collector’s Fever (1964); This Mortal Mountain (1967); This Moment of the Storm (1966); The Great Slow Kings (1963); A Museum Piece (1963); Divine Madness (1966); Corrida (1968); Love is an Imaginary Number (1966); The Man Who Loved the Faioli (1967); Lucifer (1964).