The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth, and Other Stories
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The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth, and Other Stories is a collection of science fiction short stories by American writer Roger Zelazny. It was published in 1971 by Doubleday.
Contents
Stories in the original edition:
- "The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth", winner of the 1965 Nebula Award for Best Novelette
- "The Keys to December"
- "Devil Car"
- "A Rose for Ecclesiastes"
- "The Monster and the Maiden"
- "Collector's Fever"
- "This Mortal Mountain"
- "This Moment of the Storm"
- "The Great Slow Kings"
- "A Museum Piece"
- "Divine Madness"
- "Corrida"
- "Love Is An Imaginary Number"
- "The Man Who Loved the Faioli"
- "Lucifer"
Stories added in later editions:
- "The Furies"
- "The Graveyard Heart"
Synopses
The title story, about
"This Mortal Mountain" is also about future extreme sports, concerning mountain climbing on a planet with a mountain tens of kilometers high, extending far beyond any breathable atmosphere.
"This Moment of the Storm" is about a constable on a distant colony planet, whose duties include the use of armed drone aircraft.
Reception
Dave Langford reviewed The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth for White Dwarf #87, and stated that "there are enough goodies here to prove this author had magic in his typewriter, for a while..."[1]
Reviews
- Review by Charlie Brown (1971) in Locus, #102 December 10, 1971[2]
- Review by Douglas Barbour (1973) in Riverside Quarterly, August 1973
- Review [German] by Joachim Körber? (1981) in SF Perry Rhodan Magazin, 2/81
- Review [German] by uncredited (1982) in Reclams Science Fiction Führer
- Review by K. V. Bailey (1987) in Paperback Inferno, #66
- Review by Andy Sawyer (1988) in Paperback Inferno, #70
- Review by Graham Sleight (2011) in Locus, #611 December 2011
References
- ^ Langford, Dave (March 1987). "Critical Mass". White Dwarf. No. 87. Games Workshop. p. 6.
- ^ "Title: The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth and Other Stories".
Sources
- Levack, Daniel J. H. (1983). Amber Dreams: A Roger Zelazny Bibliography. San Francisco: Underwood/Miller. pp. 32–33. ISBN 0-934438-39-0.
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