After thirteen years avoiding graduation, now he may not survive the semester.

Fred Cassidy has perfected the art of avoiding adulthood. Under the terms of his uncle’s will, he receives a generous stipend for as long as he remains a full-time college student—so the wisecracking perpetual undergraduate and fearless urban climber has no intention of ever graduating. But his comfortable arrangement collapses when he returns home to find his apartment ransacked and an enraged former professor waiting to attack him. The professor demands that Fred surrender the stolen star-stone, an invaluable piece of alien technology that Fred, unfortunately, does not have.

After narrowly escaping, Fred becomes the target of increasingly desperate attempts on his life. Professional criminals, fanatical Anglophiles, government agents with secret agendas, and extraterrestrial investigators all believe he knows where the missing artifact is hidden. The resourceful student has no idea who stole the star-stone or why he has become the prime suspect, but unless he solves the mystery first, one of his pursuers may ensure that he never lives to graduate. 

Nominated for both the Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Novel, Doorways in the Sand by celebrated author Roger Zelazny is an inventive classic science fiction novel set in near-future Earth. Told through playful nonlinear storytelling, this witty interplanetary mystery blends fast-paced action and political intrigue with comic absurdity, literary allusions, unexpected twists, and some of Zelazny’s most lyrical prose.

Perfect for fans of Philip K. Dick, Ursula K. Le Guin, Alfred Bester, Robert Sheckley, Kurt Vonnegut, and Douglas Adams, as well as readers of comedic science fiction, university campus mysteries, cosmic conspiracies, first-contact sci-fi thrillers, alien-artifact adventures, surrealist comedy, and mind-bending speculative fiction.

"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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