My Name is Legion
Roger Zelazny
Since he was no one, he could be anyone.
My Name Is Legion by Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Roger Zelazny is an action-packed collection of three interconnected science fiction mystery novellas following a nameless, identity-shifting private investigator through undersea adventures that involve everything from espionage and nuclear geoengineering to zoosemiotics and artificial intelligence. Blending futuristic detective fiction, technological suspense, and philosophical speculation, this prescient composite novel explores mass surveillance, moral accountability, digital privacy, personal freedom, and humanity’s complicated relationship with its own creations.
In “The Eve of RUMOKO,” he investigates sabotage against an underwater geoengineering project that uses nuclear explosions to create artificial islands, only to face a morally fraught decision with global consequences.
In “’Kjwalll’kje’k’koothaïlll’kje’k,” the seemingly impossible murder of a diver—apparently by a dolphin—leads him into a mystery involving marine technology, animal intelligence, smuggling, and interspecies communication.
In “Home Is the Hangman,” a sentient deep-space robot returns to Earth under suspicion of murdering its creators, forcing him to confront questions of machine consciousness, human responsibility, and revenge. The story won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Novella.
Perfect for fans of Philip K. Dick, Isaac Asimov, Alfred Bester, Ursula K. Le Guin, John Brunner, William Gibson, and Harlan Ellison, as well as readers of proto-cyberpunk, surveillance dystopias, secret-agent adventures, near-future conspiracies, corporate espionage, covert operations, nuclear fission, atomic-age techno-thrillers, off-the-grid antiheroes, marine settings, and cerebral speculative fiction about government surveillance, geopolitical power, corporate ambition, and the ethics of scientific progress.
"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
Prefer a physical book? Sadly, no authorized print edition of this title is currently available from any publisher. Fortunately, Positronic Publishing holds the exclusive ebook rights granted by the Zelazny estate, so this adventure remains available to our readers in digital format. (Believe us, we'd love to see this one on our bookshelves, too!)