New Zelazny Omnibus Available in Poland!


We’re very happy to report that there is a new Roger Zelazny omnibus available in Poland! NIEŚMIERTELNY / ISTOTY ŚWIATŁA I MROKU / WYSPA UMARŁYCH / OKO KOTA is published by Wydawnictwo, as part of their Artefakty series. The omnibus includes the acclaimed classic novels THIS IMMORTAL, CREATURES OF LIGHT AND DARKNESS, ISLE OF THE DEAD, and EYE OF CAT, and was translated by Piotr W. Cholewa. Here’s the synopsis…

ZŁOŻENIE ZAMÓWIENIA OZNACZA AKCEPTACJĘ TERMINU JEGO WYSYŁKI.

Termin wysyłki widoczny jest powyżej w pozycji: WYSYŁKA W: … DNI ROBOCZYCH oraz w koszyku i w potwierdzeniu zamówienia wysłanym e-mailem.

Na stronie sklepu widoczny jest zawsze termin wysyłki aktualnie składanych zamówień. Zamówienia są realizowane w kolejności złożenia pod warunkiem terminowej wpłaty.

Roger Zelazny, był jednym z najbardziej wpływowych pisarzy fantastycznych naszych czasów. Z równą swobodą przemierzającym bezdroża niezwykłych światów fantasy, jak rozrzucone w głębi kosmosu niezliczone uniwersa odległej przyszłości. Często eksperymentując z formą zyskał miano jednego z najważniejszych i najbardziej wszechstronnych autorów Nowej Fali. Zdobył wiele nagród, w tym sześć nagród Hugo, trzy nagrody Nebula i dwie nagrody Locus. 

Niniejszy zbiór powieści, ukazuje wielką fascynację Zelaznego mitami oraz religią. Od wierzeń Indian z plemienia Navajo, poprzez inspiracje mitologią grecką, a skończywszy na niezwykłej wizji odległej przyszłości, zaludnionej przez byty zainspirowanej wierzeniami Egipcjan.

THIS IMMORTAL is Zelazny’s Hugo, Geffen, and Seiun awards-winning debut novel, and was first published in 1966.

Conrad Nomikos has a long, rich personal history that he’d rather not talk about. And, as Arts Commissioner, he’s been given a job he’d rather not do. Escorting an alien grandee on a guided tour of the shattered remains of Earth is not something he relishes-especially when it is apparent that this places him at the center of high-level intrigue that has some bearing on the future of Earth itself!

CREATURES OF LIGHT AND DARKNESS was first published in 1969.

In the House of the Dead he has been given a name. That name is Wakim, but Wakim knows that this name is not his true name not the name that he carried with him in life. Wakim has been commanded by his master Anubus to find and destroy The Prince Who Was A Thousand. Wakim leaves the House of the Dead intent on carrying out his mission to destroy The Prince Who Was A Thousand, but he has a second personal mission… to find his true name. And if he does Wakim cannot even imagine how that will change everything…

ISLE OF THE DEAD was first published in 1969, and is the first novel featuring Francis Sandow. It was nominated for a Nebula Award, and won the Prix Apollo.

Centuries in the future, Francis Sandow is the only man alive who was born as long ago as the 20th century. His body is kept young and in perfect health by advanced scientific methods; he has amassed such a fortune that he can own entire planets; and he has become a god. No, not a god of Earth, but one of the panetheon of the alien Pei’ans: he is Shimbo of Darktree, Shrugger of Thunders. Yet he doesn’t believe that his personality has merged with the ancient consciousness of Shimbo, that he really can call down the skies upon his enemies.

The time comes, however, when Francis Sandow must use these powers against the most dangerous antagonist in the universe: another Pei’an god — Shimbo’s own enemy, Belion. And Belion has no doubt whatever of his own powers…

EYE OF CAT was first published in 1982.

William Blackhorse Singer, the last Navajo on a future Earth, is called upon to aid in protecting an alien diplomat from a powerful and hostile member of his own species. With the aid of a shape-shifting alien known as “Cat,” he carries out the mission, with one condition: when the mission is over, Cat wants a return bout with the man who captured him, a chase with Singer as the hunted instead of the hunter…

A number of Roger Zelazny’s classic novels have recently been published as new audiobooks, via Tantor.

Out Now: New Audiobook edition of Roger Zelazny’s EYE OF CAT


Today, Tantor Media publishes a new audiobook edition of EYE OF CAT by Roger Zelazny. The novel is read by Jason Grasl. Here’s the synopsis…

William Blackhorse Singer, the last Navajo on a future Earth, is called upon to aid in protecting an alien diplomat from a powerful and hostile member of his own species. With the aid of a shape-shifting alien known as “Cat,” he carries out the mission, with one condition: when the mission is over, Cat wants a return bout with the man who captured him, a chase with Singer as the hunted instead of the hunter…

Eye of Cat takes a twist on the hunter turned hunted. William Blackhorse Singer is hired to protect an alien diplomat, then enlists the assistance of a shapeshifter he captured years earlier. The creature will only help on the condition that it gets a chance to try to trap Singer once the mission is completed.

Tantor has published nine other Zelazny audiobooks, to date.

Roger Zelazny’s EYE OF CAT out now in Italy!


Roger Zelazny‘s EYE OF CAT is now available in Italy! Published by Urania as OCCHIO DI GATTO, here’s the synopsis…

Flessuoso, indipendente, dai “sentimenti alieni” e in grado di leggere la mente.

Chiunque abbia un micio in casa si troverà d’accordo con questa definizione, eppure quello del titolo di questo inedito di Roger Zelazny non è un felino qualsiasi: “Gatto” è il nomignolo di un inquietante alieno mutaforma dalle abilità telepatiche, il cui aspetto ricorda vagamente quello di un felino con un occhio solo.

Con l’aiuto di questa strana creatura, Billy Cavallo Nero Cantante, protagonista del romanzo, affronterà la difficile sfida messagli davanti dal governo mondiale: proteggere un diplomatico Strageano dagli estremisti religiosi della sua stessa specie.

Billy Cantante, anche detto “Segugio Stellare”, ultimo guerriero Navajo, aveva catturato Gatto cinquant’anni prima, rinchiudendolo nell’Istituto, una sorta di zoo galattico.

Gatto accetta di aiutare il suo vecchio nemico, ma a un patto… alla fine della missione il cacciatore si farà preda, restituendo all’alieno la sua dignità di predatore.

In questo inedito di uno dei grandi maestri della fantascienza, le leggende dei nativi americani si mescolano senza soluzione di continuità alla politica galattica, dando al romanzo un tocco onirico, in un incalzante confronto fra preda e cacciatore, uomo e bestia, vecchio e nuovo mondo, mito e tecnologia.

First published in 1982, here’s the English-language synopsis for EYE OF CAT

A retired hunter of alien zoo specimens, William Blackhorse Singer, the last Navajo on a future Earth, has come to what he sees as the end of his life. The World Government calls upon him for aid in protecting an alien diplomat from a powerful and hostile member of his own species. Knowing both the importance of the task and his inability to handle it on his own, Singer goes to confront his greatest conquest with a strange bargain. A shape-shifting alien, the last of his species, sits in a special cage at an institute dedicated to the study of extraterrestrial beings. Most frequently he projects the aspect of a one-eyed catlike creature, but he can appear as almost anything.

One of Singer’s secrets, and his greatest guilt, is his suspicion that the creature is intelligent. He confronts him and offers his own life for Cat’s cooperation in saving the alien. Cat accepts, and later, their mission fulfilled, demands a refinement on the original bargain. Rather than a simple death he wants a return bout — a chase with Singer as the hunted rather than the hunter.

The gods, powers and monsters of Navajo legend provide the backdrop for the working out of Singer’s fate — for the chase is as much for his soul as for his body. As he uses matter transmitters to flit from Paris to London to the Middle East to the American Southwest, he must search back into his own early life as well as the root beliefs of his vanished people and come to terms with a world that has adopted him, made use of his skills, and left him feeling that he has no place to call his own.

Zeno represents Roger Zelazny in Translation and in the UK, on behalf of the Zelazny Estate.