Roger Zelazny Debra Slapak This is an ideal text

This is an ideal text for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses across the social sciences

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Nineteen contributors from across the globe speak of a singular event with remarkable impact

Roger Zelazny Debra Slapak This is an ideal textChallenging convention with the SF nonconformist Roger Zelazny combined poetic prose with fearless literary ambition to become one of the most influential science fiction writers of the 1960s. Yet many critics found his later novels underachieving and his turn to fantasy a disappointment. F. Brett Cox surveys the landscape of Zelazny's creative life and contradictions. Launched by the classic 1963 short story "A Rose for Ecclesiastes," Zelazny soon