The first in a six-volume series, Volume 1: Threshold contains all of Zelazny's short works from his early years through the mid 1960s—a period of experimentation and growth that flowered into gems such as "A Rose for Ecclesiastes," "The Graveyard Heart," "The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth," and "He Who Shapes." The stories in this series are enriched by editors' notes and Zelazny's own words, taken from his many essays, describing why he wrote the stories and what he thought about them in retrospect.

The third in a six-volume series, Volume 3: This Mortal Mountain contains Zelazny's short works from the late 1960s and early 1970s, Zelazny's breadth of interests developed into a variety of styles displayed in such rich stories as "This Mortal Mountain," "The Steel General," "Damnation Alley," "The Man Who Loved the Faioli," and the Hugo and Nebula-nominated "The Engine at Heartspring's Center". The stories in this series are enriched by editors' notes and Zelazny's own words, taken from his many essays, describing why he wrote the stories and what he thought about them in retrospect.

The fourth in a six-volume series, Volume 4: Last Exit to Babylon contains Zelazny's short works from the late 1970s and early 1980s when Zelazny's popularity opened new markets for his work. He continued to produce highly-crafted stories, such as the popular "The Last Defender of Camelot," the Hugo-winning "Unicorn Variation," and the Hugo and Nebula-winning "Home is the Hangman." The stories in this series are enriched by editors' notes and Zelazny's own words, taken from his many essays, describing why he wrote the stories and what he thought about them in retrospect.

The fifth in a six-volume series, Volume 5: Nine Black Doves contains Zelazny's short works from the 1980s, when Zelazny's mature craft produced the Hugo-winning and Nebula-nominated stories, "24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai" and "Permafrost," and other entertaining stories such as "Kalifriki of the Thread," "Dilvish, the Damned," and his first two Wild Cards stories about Croyd Crenson, "The Sleeper" and "Ashes to Ashes."

The last in a six-volume series The Road To Amber, covers the final five years of Zelazny's career in the early 1990s, when he reached for new ideas and continued familiar themes with stories such as Godson and Godson: A Play in Three Acts, two more Wild Cards stories (Concerto for Siren and Serotonin and The Long Sleep), and a linked sequence of five Amber stories leading to planned but unwritten Amber novels. Table of Contents Introductions 11 Roger Zelazny (by Jane Lindskold) 19 Remembering Roger (by Gerald Hausman) 25 The Trickster (by Gardner Dozois) Stories 35 Godson 59 Godson: A Play in Three Acts 113 Come Back to the Killing Ground, Alice, My Love (series: Kalifriki) 157 Prince of the Powers of This World 165 The Long Crawl of Hugh Glass 197 Tunnel Vision 199 Epithalamium 221 Forever After: Preludes and Postlude 269 Lady of Steel 271 The Three Descents of Jeremy Baker 279 The Sleeper: Character Outline (series: Wild Cards) 283 Concerto for Siren and Serotonin (series: Wild Cards) 331 The Long Sleep(§ Wild Cards) Amber 364 Amber Map 365 Prolog to Trumps of Doom 369 The Road to Amber 373 The Great Amber Questionnaire 381 A Secret of Amber (with Ed Greenwood) 385 The Salesman's Tale 399 Blue Horse, Dancing Mountains 405 The Shroudling and the Guisel 417 Coming to a Cord 425 Hall of Mirrors Articles 445 On Writing Horror After Reading Clive Barker 447 "When It Comes It's Wonderful": Art versus Craft in Writing 461 Warriors and Dreams 469 "...And Call Me Roger": The Literary Life of Roger Zelazny, Part 6 Curiosities 523 Sandow's Shadow (outline) (series: Francis Sandow) 533 Shadowland (outline) (series: Shadowjack) 541 Dysonized Biologicals (outline) 545 Donnerjack, of Virtù: A Fable for the Machine Age (outline) Celebration 555 A Zelazny Timeline 563 Z-World (by Michael Whelan) 575 The Quintessential Roger Zelazny 579 Isle of Regret (by Trent Zelazny) 583 In Memoriam: Roger Zelazny (by George R. R. Martin) Songs (in "Godson: A Play in Three Acts") 60 My Given Name Is Death 63 Why Do Little Boys Lie? 68 It's Rough Being a Bike 72 Be a Doctor 76 Why's Good-bye So Easy for Him? 77 Remembering 78 Oh, How the Dying Goes On 82 Oh, Wondrous Weed 90 The Man Who Went Away 93 Betrayed 103 Let's Do It 107 Save That Quarterback Poetry 110 Our Own Piece of the Sky 111 The Appetite and Rising Sun 112 Cry of the Needy 159 What Child Is This? 164 Storm 194 Walking, of Course 196 Spinning the Day Through My Head 218 Paranoid Game 220 The God and Frustrate Shrine 263 Ikhnaton's Hymn to the Sun 267 The Rational Gods 329 Spring Morning: Missive