The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth by Roger Zelazny

In this story, cars are anthropomorphized. This reminds me of that Twilight Zone episode where the machines come to life and try to kill the protagonist.

What happened, is that a native creature on the planet was evolved when they changed the world. It would take them 13,000 years to evolve this world, with two world changing machines on it, place at each pole. They banded together across their many planets, and elected to change a world so that they could live in it. But they had to live in -58° fahrenheit, and they had to breathe methane, so they had to live in closed in containers. When they reached their majority, they were allowed to retire so to speak. This is about a race of creatures that were specially made to work in mines on certain planets. The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth (9.0) This is Zelazny at the top of his game. This Moment of the Storm (7.0) This was good, not super creative but poignant and interesting.Ī Rose for Ecclesiastes (7.5) Anyone else would have stopped with the basic plot but he gave it so much more

Team climbs highest mountain ever and is haunted by computers trying to protect a woman dying in the mountain. The Keys to December (7.0) Forgot to add notes, but I remember liking it. The Great Slow Kings (9.0) Excellent, they're like ents only even slower. Lucifer (7.0) Not sure why it's called 'Lucifer' but damn is it poignant. Trying to figure out if he's the devil, Prometheus or just man in general.

Love is an Imaginary Number (6.5) Not bad. Finally reverses to before accident and stops accident from happening. Mad Max-ish, but totally original.ĭivine Madness (6.0) Man loses wife in car accident, now has siezures where everything happens in reverse. Pretty funny, very short like a jokeĪ Museum Piece (6.5) Short silly, sometimes witty, if you can't be an artist then be art.Ĭollector's Fever (6.0) Short, quirky, I guess it's a hard sci-fi joke.ĭevil Car (7.0) This was cool and fun. The Monster and the Maiden (7.0) Sacrifice a dragon to a human. Robot graveyard keeper gets together with life draining, angel/slut of death.

The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth by Roger Zelazny