Steve Brust, in his weblog for 2003-07-17, says: ] I've been asked to do an introduction to a collection ] of short stories by Roger Zelazny. I'm more than a little ] flattered and honored. But I have no bloody clue what to ] say. No one wants to read three thousand words of, "But. like, ] he's really good!" I have this terrible urge to call Neil ] Gaiman and say, "Here. You write it." Well, you could, perhaps, describe some of the tropes that run through his works, like his heros possessing near-supernatural strength, in many of the stories. Or you could point out that there will be all of this action-adventure stuff going on, but suddenly there will be transitions to these paragraphs of near lyric beauty. Or you could talk about the playfulness that is in even his serious stories, or his way of taking a silly idea and just *running* with it, spinning out a story like a stage magician who will just keep pulling scarves from nowhere. Or, you could channel Zelazny, and write what *he* might have said about his own works. Hmm. Who is the publisher? What stories are in this collection? I am curious to know if there is something I haven't read.