Inventive, philosophical, and darkly witty, the expansive short story collection Manna from Heaven compiles twenty-five imaginative works of experimental speculative fiction that showcase Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Roger Zelazny’s signature fusion of mythology, adventure, and science fantasy.

Featuring an introduction by bestselling fantasy author Steven Brust, this must-have collection of genre-bending stories spans cosmic vengeance, deadly games, haunted houses, supernatural romance, alien worlds, assassins, dark angels, and labyrinths of fate. Highlights include: the linked Kalifriki adventures; “Nine Starships Waiting,” a Jacobean revenge tragedy recast as space opera; “The Three Descents of Jeremy Baker,” about a stranded space traveler repeatedly confronting disaster near a black hole; and six essential tales from The Chronicles of Amber universe featuring Merlin, Corwin, Luke, Frakir, the Pattern, and the Courts of Chaos.

Sixteen Acclaimed Short Stories
“Godson”
“Mana from Heaven”
“Corrida”
“Prince of the Powers of this World”
“The Furies”
“The Deadliest Game”
“Kalifriki of the Thread”
“Come Back to the Killing Ground, Alice, My Love”
“Lady of Steel”
“Come to Me Not in Winter’s White” (with Harlan Ellison)
“The Nеw Pleasure”
“The House of the Hanged Man”
“Epithalamium”
“The Last Inn on the Road” (with Danny Plachta)
“Stowaway”
“Angel, Dark Angel”

Six Tales Set in The Chronicles of Amber Universe
“Prologue to Trumps of Doom”
“Blue Horse, Dancing Mountains”
“The Salesman’s Tale”
“The Shroudling and the Guisel”
“Coming to a Cord”
“Hall of Mirrors”

Three BONUS Shorts
“Nine Starships Waiting”
“Tunnel Vision”
“The Three Descents of Jeremy Baker”

Perfect for fans of Ursula K. Le Guin, Philip K. Dick, Michael Moorcock, Samuel R. Delany, Harlan Ellison, Jack Vance, Gene Wolfe, Fritz Leiber, and Robert Silverberg, as well as readers who enjoy New Wave science fiction, dark fantasy, space opera, sword and sorcery, parallel worlds, alien civilizations, black holes, artificial intelligence, assassins, supernatural thrillers, mythological fiction, philosophical fiction, psychological speculation, surrealism, experimental storytelling, dark humor, revenge stories, and cosmic adventure.

"A storyteller without peer. He created worlds as colorful and exotic and memorable as any our genre has ever seen."  –George R.R. Martin

". . . his performance was never anything other than dazzling."  –Robert Silverberg

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