Unicorn Variations

Unicorn Variations

Dust jacket from the first edition
Author	Roger Zelazny
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction, fantasy
Publisher	Timescape Books
Publication date	1983
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardback)
Pages	213
ISBN	0-671-49449-X
OCLC	9827688
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 19
LC Class	PS3576.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

• "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

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

• "The Locus Index to Science Fiction" . Retrieved March 12, 2007.

• Unicorn Variations title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database