Godfrey Justin Holmes is a man out of time, running from a past that refuses to release him. Two journeys between distant worlds have severed Holmes from his own era, but centuries of space travel cannot erase his memories—not when suspended animation allows the body to cheat time while leaving the mind untouched. He began running because of a woman buried on another planet. Nearly six hundred years later, her loss still haunts him.

Now Holmes serves as a professional Hell Cop on Tierra del Cygnus, protecting the inhabitants of Betty—short for Beta Station—from the deadly hazards of their alien colony world. When a colossal, city-destroying storm bears down upon the settlement, the mounting disaster unleashes the memories Holmes has spent centuries trying to escape, threatening both his mission to save his adopted home and his fragile hold on the present.

Hugo Award-nominated This Moment of the Storm by Roger Zelazny is an emotionally powerful work of classic science fiction distinguished by lyrical prose and unforgettable world-building. Blending interstellar travel, planetary colonization, and a desperate survival adventure amid extreme weather, Zelazny explores love, grief, memory, mortality, and the emotional cost of living beyond one’s natural lifetime.

Perfect for fans of Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick, Harlan Ellison, and Samuel R. Delany, as well as readers of psychological science fiction, far-future adventures, natural-disaster fiction, alien-planet survival stories, and poignant tales of love and loss.

"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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