Post by Finarvyn on Oct 6, 2007 9:41:03 GMT -5
I found this on alt.books.roger-zelazny:
I'm delighted to announce on this newsgroup that a definitive, multi-volume collection of Roger Zelazny's works is in progress. Here's a few details that I can provide:
- projected 5 hardcover volumes + a separate bibliography
- the intent is to include (likely in chronological order) all of Zelazny's short stories/novellas/novelettes and all poems, including a number of previously unpublished stories, film treatments, plays and poems (some of which I have mentioned before on this newsgroup)
- excerpts of novels or serialized novels will not be included, except that we will probably include a previously published excerpt/chapter for each of Lord of Light and Creatures of Light & Darkness, and we will probably include ...And Call Me Conrad in its original two-part form with the first-person summary in between the two parts
- will probably include selected non-fiction articles by Zelazny
- each piece will have introductions that have been compiled largely from Zelazny's own comments obtained from various sources, both published and previously unpublished (these have already been compiled and written by me but are being polished as additional material is discovered from old interviews etc)
- each piece will have an afterword that annotates the stories and poems in order to identify the allusions and references, define unusual words, etc. The effort is not to interpret (since meaning/interpretation is in the mind of the reader) but to facilitate the reader gaining insight into deeper levels of meaning that may have been intended by the author. These annotations have already been written but are subject to ongoing revision after each re-reading uncovers something else that warrants annotation.
- there will be a biography running through the five volumes
- there will probably be 2-3 introductions or afterwords per volume by established authors who knew Zelazny or whose careers were influenced by him
- the project will be published be NESFA Press(www.nesfa.org/press) and it is being edited by David G. Grubbs and Christopher S. Kovacs (me). That website has been updated in the "Upcoming Books" section to indicate this project
- the plan is that all five volumes will be compiled before the first
one is actually published, and then all five volumes would be released over the course of 2-3 years.
- the ISBN for the first volume is 1-886778-71-X or 978-1-886778-71-9
I'm delighted to announce on this newsgroup that a definitive, multi-volume collection of Roger Zelazny's works is in progress. Here's a few details that I can provide:
- projected 5 hardcover volumes + a separate bibliography
- the intent is to include (likely in chronological order) all of Zelazny's short stories/novellas/novelettes and all poems, including a number of previously unpublished stories, film treatments, plays and poems (some of which I have mentioned before on this newsgroup)
- excerpts of novels or serialized novels will not be included, except that we will probably include a previously published excerpt/chapter for each of Lord of Light and Creatures of Light & Darkness, and we will probably include ...And Call Me Conrad in its original two-part form with the first-person summary in between the two parts
- will probably include selected non-fiction articles by Zelazny
- each piece will have introductions that have been compiled largely from Zelazny's own comments obtained from various sources, both published and previously unpublished (these have already been compiled and written by me but are being polished as additional material is discovered from old interviews etc)
- each piece will have an afterword that annotates the stories and poems in order to identify the allusions and references, define unusual words, etc. The effort is not to interpret (since meaning/interpretation is in the mind of the reader) but to facilitate the reader gaining insight into deeper levels of meaning that may have been intended by the author. These annotations have already been written but are subject to ongoing revision after each re-reading uncovers something else that warrants annotation.
- there will be a biography running through the five volumes
- there will probably be 2-3 introductions or afterwords per volume by established authors who knew Zelazny or whose careers were influenced by him
- the project will be published be NESFA Press(www.nesfa.org/press) and it is being edited by David G. Grubbs and Christopher S. Kovacs (me). That website has been updated in the "Upcoming Books" section to indicate this project
- the plan is that all five volumes will be compiled before the first
one is actually published, and then all five volumes would be released over the course of 2-3 years.
- the ISBN for the first volume is 1-886778-71-X or 978-1-886778-71-9
