Unicorn Variations

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Unicorn Variations
Dust-jacket from the first edition
Author	Roger Zelazny
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Science fiction and Fantasy short stories, essays
Publisher	Timescape Books
Publication date	1983
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	213 pp
ISBN	ISBN 0-7434-3510-9

Unicorn Variations is a collection of stories and essays by author Roger Zelazny.

[edit] Contents

"Unicorn Variation"
"The Last of the Wild Ones"

(A follow up short story to the earlier story "Devil Car")
"Recital"
"The Naked Matador"
"The Parts That Are Only Glimpsed: Three Reflexes" (essay)
"Dismal Light"

(A follow up short story to the novel "Isle of the Dead")
"Go Starless in the Night"
"But Not the Herald"
"A Hand Across the Galaxy"
"The Force That Through the Circuit Drives the Current"

(A short story that plays with themes developed in the novella "Home is the Hangman")
"Home is the Hangman"

(Initially published in the collection My Name is Legion)
"Fire and /or Ice"
"Exeunt Omnes"
"A Very Good Year"
"My Lady of the Diodes"
"And I Only Am Escaped to Tell Thee"
"The Horses of Lir"
"The Night Has 999 Eyes"
"Angel, Dark Angel"
"Walpurgisnacht"
"The George Business"
"Some Science Fiction Parameters: A Biased View" (essay)

[edit] Trivia

A plot element from "The George Business," in which a knight and dragon form a lucrative partnership, was echoed in the 1996 film Dragonheart.^[1] The reference is uncredited, but speculation in the science fiction community indicates that the screenwriter might have drawn inspiration from Zelazny's work.