Unicorn Variations
by Roger Zelazny
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good-/Good+
- ISBN 10
- 067149449X
- ISBN 13
- 9780671494490
- Seller
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Salem, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
First printing of this edition. Dust jacket has a bit of wear at the bottom of the spine; now in new removable protective cover. Black boards, red printing on spine. Pages are clean and unmarked. Timescape / Science Fiction Book Club hard cover with dust jacket, first book club printing Feb. 1984, (code O04). SFBC #3555, ISBN: 9780671494490, 214 pages, cover art by Gerry Daly. 8vo (8.5" x 5.75") Winner, 1984 Balrog Award, 1984 Locus Poll Award, Best Collection. Collects 22 stories: Unicorn Variation (winner, 1982 Hugo Award); Home is the Hangman (Winner, 1975 Nebula Award, 1976 Hugo Award); Angel, Dark Angel; Dismal Light; And I Only Am Escaped to Tell Thee; But Not the Herald; Exeunt Omnes; Fire and/or Ice; The Force That Through the Circuit Drives the Current; The George Business; A Hand Across the Galaxy; The Horses of Lir; The Last of the Wild Ones; My Lady of the Diodes; The Naked Matador; The Night Has 999 Eyes; Recital; A Very Good Year; Walpurgisnacht; Go Starless in the Night; Some Science Fiction Parameters: A Biased View (essay); and The Parts That Are Only Glimpsed: Three Reflexes (essay).
Synopsis
Unicorn Variations is a collection of stories and essays by author Roger Zelazny, published in 1983. The title story, "Unicorn Variations", 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 good friend George R. R.
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- Seller
- Bujoldfan (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 112817039780671494490gb
- Title
- Unicorn Variations
- Author
- Roger Zelazny
- Illustrator
- Gerry Daly
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 067149449X
- ISBN 13
- 9780671494490
- Publisher
- Timescape Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1983-11-01
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science Fiction / Fantasy;
- Size
- 8vo
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