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A Rose for Ecclesiastes
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Jim
Dec 19, 2007 rated it it was amazing
Oct2014: Reading with the Sci-fi and Heroic Fantasy group
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Introduction 1967 essay by Theodore Sturgeon
was pretty good. Kind of convoluted, but I agreed with a lot of what he said about Zelazny's writing.

The Furies 1965 novelette by Zelazny
featuring Sandor Sandor, Benedick Benedict and Lynx Links, has always been my favorite story in this collection. Zelazny switches my sympathies around like a mixer. Who is right? Anyone? The characters & the differences i
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Jim
Dec 19, 2007 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
This book was titled "A Rose for Ecclesiastes" in the U.K. & both editions contain the same 4 stories.

The title story (in the U.K.) is one of his most famous stories & rightfully so. It's another story set on a fictional Mars, with a dying Martian race & Earthmen to study them. It doesn't sound too appealing - more hackneyed than anything. It is nothing of the kind. It's touching - a romance mystery. 'Rose' also appears in his collection "The Lamps of His Mouth, The Doors of His Face" as well as
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