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Unicorn Variations

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Unicorn Variations
Dust jacket from the first edition
AuthorRoger Zelazny
LanguageEnglish
GenreScience fiction, fantasy
PublisherTimescape Books
Publication date
1983
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages213
ISBN0-671-49449-X
OCLC9827688
813/.54 19
LC ClassPS3576.E43 A6 1983

Unicorn Variations is a collection of stories and essays by American author Roger Zelazny, published in 1983. It won the Locus Award for Best Collection in 1984.[1]

Contents

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  • "Introduction"
  • "Unicorn Variation"
  • "The Last of the Wild Ones" (a follow-up short story to the earlier story "Devil Car")
  • "Recital"
  • "The Naked Matador"
  • "The Parts That Are Only Glimpsed: Three Reflexes" (essay)
  • "Dismal Light" (a follow-up short story to the novel Isle of the Dead)
  • "Go Starless in the Night"
  • "But Not the Herald"
  • "A Hand Across the Galaxy"
  • "The Force That Through the Circuit Drives the Current" (a short story that plays with themes developed in the story "Home is the Hangman")
  • "Home is the Hangman" (also in the collection My Name Is Legion)
  • "Fire and /or Ice"
  • "Exeunt Omnes"
  • "A Very Good Year"
  • "My Lady of the Diodes"
  • "And I Only Am Escaped to Tell Thee"
  • "The Horses of Lir"
  • "The Night Has 999 Eyes"
  • "Angel, Dark Angel"
  • "Walpurgisnacht"
  • "The George Business"
  • "Some Science Fiction Parameters: A Biased View" (essay)

References

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  1. ^ "Locus Awards 1984". Retrieved June 23, 2025.