During a term as Secretary-Treasurer of Science Fiction Writers of America, Roger Zelazny, winner of six Hugo awards and three Nebula awards, met Vaughn Bode. Admiring each other's work, they joined forces in the creation of "Way Up High" and "Here There Be Dragons". Roger had written the stories in the late 1960s and found Vaughn's work ideally suited to his text.Vaughn Bode once said of himself, "I am the crawly caterpillar, who is the cocoon, who is the butterfly, all at once. Right now ... Magick is with us all the time ..". Winner of a Hugo award, illustrator of countless comics, book covers, and magazines, Vaughn Bode died tragically in 1975. Here at last are these two wonderful stories available as a two book numbered slipcased set each individually signed by Roger Zelazny. Way Up High is the moving story of a little girl's friendship with Herman, the last pterodactyl "Here There Be Dragons" is the lighthearted tale of a king who wants a dragon as a surprise at his daughter's birthday party and the one sensible knight in the kingdom who is charged with this task. Edition limited to 1,000 copies.
Author
Roger Zelazny made his name with a group of novellas which demonstrated just how intense an emotional charge could be generated by the stock imagery of sf; the most famous of these is A Rose for Ecclesiastes in which a poet struggles to convince dying and sterile Martians that life is worth continuing. Zelazny continued to write excellent short stories throughout his career. Most of his novels deal, one way or another, with tricksters and mythology, often with rogues who become gods, like Sam in Lord of Light, who reinvents Buddhism as a vehicle for political subversion on a colony planet. The fantasy sequence The Amber Chronicles, which started with Nine Princes in Amber, deals with the ruling family of a Platonic realm at the metaphysical heart of things, who can slide, trickster-like through realities, and their wars with each other and the related ruling house of Chaos. Zelazny never entirely fulfilled his early promise—who could?—but he and his work were much loved, and a potent influence on such younger writers as George R. R. Martin and Neil Gaiman. He won the Nebula award three times (out of 14 nominations) and the Hugo award six times (out of 14 nominations). His papers are housed at the Albin O. Khun Library of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger\_Ze...
