Race through a dystopian near future in which AI-enhanced automobiles have rebelled against humanity. Now fully autonomous and dangerously self-aware, these feral machines roam the open road and devastated countryside in predatory herds, raiding fortified human settlements for gasoline, replacement parts, and ammunition. Beyond the protection of the fuel and supply hubs known as Gas Fortresses, no traveler is safe.

Ten years ago, the leader of the gas-guzzlers, a powerful black Cadillac, killed Sam Murdock’s brother during a raid. Since then, Murdock has devoted his life to hunting the rogue machine, deploying missiles, landmines, even other weaponized vehicles—but the Devil Car has always proved too fast, too clever, and too heavily armored to destroy.

Then Murdock engineers Jenny, an impossibly fast, gaudy, bright red muscle car. Beneath the seductive hot rod exterior, however, waits an arsenal designed for vehicular warfare and an advanced system every bit as cunning and lethal as the enemy she's been designed to defeat.

Featuring the Nebula Award-nominated “Devil Car” and its sequel, “Last of the Wild Ones,” The Scarlet Lady is a two-story collection from Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Roger Zelazny. This darkly playful, explosive revenge thriller is a high-speed fusion of post-apocalyptic science fiction, road-war adventure, and killer-car horror.

Perfect for fans of Mad Max, Stephen King’s Christine, "Trucks," and Maximum Overdrive, Philip K. Dick, J. G. Ballard, Richard Matheson, and Harlan Ellison, as well as readers of car-nage, killer vehicles, rogue artificial intelligence, sentient machines, autonomous-car thrillers, vehicular combat, road battles, highway dystopias, hostile industrial wastelands, ecological sci-fi, resource-scarcity fiction, high-tech survival stories, and action-packed technological thrillers.

"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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