ffmike
ffmike

Finished: The Last Defender of Camelot, by Roger Zelazny 📚 - A collection of Zelazny’s short fiction. Standouts include the original (shorter) version of “Damnation Alley” and “For a Breath I Tarry.” Enjoyable, as is all Zelazny.

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MitchW
MitchW

@ffmike I loved the shorter version of Damnation Alley. I wonder which came first: That or Escape From New York?

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ffmike
ffmike

@MitchW Damnation Alley was first by a few years. I think they both grew out of the late 1960s sense of looming apocalypse. Which should be coming back into style any minute now.

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MitchW
MitchW

@ffmike I suspect they both were inspired by Hunter Thompson and “Hell’s Angels.” I think Zelazny explicitly said as much.

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