The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth, and Other Stories

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The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth, and Other Stories
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Dust jacket from first edition
Author Roger Zelazny
Cover artistPeggy Barnett
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Genre Science fiction
Publisher Doubleday
Publication date
1971
Media typePrint (hardcover)
Pages229 pp
ISBN 0-385-08216-9

The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth, and Other Stories is a collection of science fiction short stories by American writer Roger Zelazny. It was published in 1971 by Doubleday.

Contents

Contents

Stories in the original edition:

Stories added in later editions:

Synopses

The title story, about extreme sportsmen who fish for "sea monsters" in the oceans of Venus, won the first Nebula Award for Best Novelette in 1965.

"This Mortal Mountain" is also about future extreme sports, concerning mountain climbing on a planet with a mountain tens of kilometers high, extending far beyond any breathable atmosphere.

"This Moment of the Storm" is about a constable on a distant colony planet, whose duties include the use of armed drone aircraft.

Reception

Dave Langford reviewed The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth for White Dwarf #87, and stated that "there are enough goodies here to prove this author had magic in his typewriter, for a while..." [1]

Reviews

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