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The Last Defender of Camelot - Roger Zelazny
The Last Defender of Camelot
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(This book club edition lacks an ISBN) Uncanny in the breadth and scope of his imagination, Roger Zelazny also creates superbly memorable characters to propel his stories. Now, in The Last Defender of Camelot, he has selected 16 of his finest works, written a brief introduction to each, and... show more
(This book club edition lacks an ISBN)

Uncanny in the breadth and scope of his imagination, Roger Zelazny also creates superbly memorable characters to propel his stories. Now, in The Last Defender of Camelot, he has selected 16 of his finest works, written a brief introduction to each, and combined them into one exciting volume.
The Stainless Steel Leech tells the beautifully crafted, macabre tale of a werebot who hunts and feeds in a world of robots. Unique among 'bots in being free master of his own movements, but slave ot the endless search for each day's energy, he has but one friend; the lone, remaining vampire who long ago tasted the last blood on the planet and now lives in the dim world of the undead, nourished only by memories.
For a Breath I Tarry is the story of Frost, the machine that controls the northern hemisphere. For ten thousand years, Frost has been aware of every snowflake that falls; yet he is flawed. During his creation a solar flare affected his circuitry, and Frost, unlike Beta who controls the southern hemisphere, has been afflicted with curiosity. He is a machine with a hobby: to know -- and become -- one of the long-lost inhabitants of earth: man.
Damnation Alley tells of a thoroughly unrepentent criminal's attempt to earn his pardon by driving across the perilous remains of a ruined continent to deliver serum to a plague-ridden Boston. Along the way he has to battle nature's forces gone wild, predatory mutations that overrun the wilderness, human forms that barely recognize their own kind -- with a superhuman cunning as his final weapon.
Among the other incisive works are the stories of a psychiatrist whose method is the ultimate in dream therapy ... a cyborg who finds love in a euthanasia colony ... a strategy game between aliens that reshapes history to their own ends ... and more, all by an award-winning master in the field.
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Format: hardcover
Publisher: Pocket Books
Edition language: English
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Musings/Träumereien/Devaneios
Musings/Träumereien/Devaneios rated it
2.0 Erudition: "The Last Defender of Camelot" by Roger Zelazny
(Original Review, 1980-12-12)"The Last Defender of Camelot" is not really a new Zelazny book, but is a collection of short stories and novelettes from the very beginning of his career til now. I didn't much care for the title story (Merlin, not Lancelot was always my favorite Arthurian character), b...
Traveller
Traveller rated it
I've been hesitating on this, since I haven't been sure whether to give it 3 or 4 stars. I like his fertile, even weird imagination, but here or there it became a bit too much for me in the sense that he went either into territory that became slightly obscure, or just-too- implausible, but on the ot...
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