Summary

Lord of the Fantastic, published in August 1998, is a tribute anthology to Roger Zelazny, full of stories by his friends, admirers, and "bastard writer-children", as Neil Gaiman puts it. It's packed full of twenty original stories, two reprints, an introduction by Fred Saberhagen, and a closing by Gerald Hausman which almost seems to be fiction, but apparently is a true telling of how they wound up collaborating on Wilderness. Each author wrote a personal afterward for his or her story, talking about how he or she knew Zelazny, and relating various anecdotes and memories. On the whole, it's a very well-done anthology, tribute, and remembrance.

Stories, Authors, and Trivia

Introduction by Fred Saberhagen (Collaborated with Zelazny on Coils and The Black Throne)
"Lethe" by Walter Jon Williams (Wrote "Elegy for Angels and Dogs", a sequel to Zelazny's "The Graveyard Heart")
"The Story Roger Never Told" by Jack Williamson (Subject of The Williamson Effect, the tribute anthology which Zelazny edited)
"The Somehow Not Yet Dead" by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
"Calling Pittsburgh" by Steven Brust
"If I Take the Wings of Morning" by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel
"Ki'rin and the Blue and White Tiger" by Jane Lindskold (Close friend of Zelazny's; lived with him in his last years, and has done most of the finishing up on his incomplete works to get them published)
"The Eryx" by Robert Sheckley (Collaborated with Zelazny on Bring Me the Head of Prince Charming, A Farce to be Reckoned With, and If at Faust You Don't Succeed)
"Southern Discomfort" by Jack C. Haldeman II
"Suicide Kings" by John J. Miller
"Changing of the Guard" by Robert Wayne McCoy and Thomas F. Monteleone
"The Flying Dutchman" by John Varley
"Ninekiller and the Neterw" by William Sanders
"Call Me Titan" by Robert Silverberg
"The Outling" by Andre Norton
"Arroyo de Oro" by Pati Nagle
"Back in 'The Real World'" by Bradley H. Sinor
"Mad Jack" by Jennifer Roberson
"Movers and Shakers" by Paul Dellinger
"The Halfway House at the Heart of Darkness" by William Browning Spencer
"Only the End of the World Again" by Neil Gaiman
"Slow Symphonies of Mass and Time" by Gregory Benford
"Asgard Unlimited" by Michael A. Stackpole
"Wherefore the Rest is Silence" by Gerald Hausman

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