The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth

mass market paperback, 512 pages

English language

Published March 30, 2004 by I Books.

ISBN:
978-0-7434-7922-6
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OCLC Number:
54938577

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So the copy of the book I read was an audiobook recorded for the Library of Congress's Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped. Apparently that's not a version Goodreads has records of, and I can't find anything substantial about the recording online. The narrator was Eric Zwemer, and he did an amazing job with the material. The recording was done in January of 1980, and Zwemer's voice has a delightful timbre and rhythm that's both excellently suited to Zelazny's writing style, and curiously absent from the field of modern narrators.


The stories themselves (this is a collection of 15 stories, rather than a single piece of prose) are all delightful, and range from silly though experiment pieces to fleshed-out longer pieces. Of those stories included here, A Rose for Ecclesiastes is probably best well known, but I was partial to Devil Car (which one reviewer called a "post-apocalyptic answer …

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Subjects

  • Short stories
  • Fiction - Science Fiction
  • Fiction
  • Fantasy
  • Science Fiction - Short Stories
  • Fiction / Science Fiction / General
  • Fantasy - General