The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny from NESFA Press

I’d heard this was in the works, but I didn’t realize they’d actually started coming out: The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny from NESFA Press.

I guess I could write something here about how exciting this is, but this Amazon posting from George Beahm sums it up pretty well:

In what has to be the bargain of the century, NESFA Press is issuing six–count ’em, six!–collections of Zelazny’s short fiction. The first two books are out, and they are great buys: handsome hardbacks with a newly commissioned Michael Whelan painting for the dust jacket, sewn signatures, notes for each story, commentary from Zelazny, and annotations by someone who’s done his homework. In other words, get this NOW before they go out of print and command princely sums! The print run, I believe, is approximately 2,000 of each volume, so once the word gets out, fans will snap these up. I’m not in a position to go check my copies, but my recollection is that these are around $30 or less each. What amazes me is that the first two books have stories I’ve never been able to locate, since Zelazny had early short fiction published in small magazines, fanzines, prozines, etc. So this is your chance to get all of his short fiction, in hardback, in an edition made specifically for his fans. For the two books on hand, any praise I sing is insufficient: I eagerly await the remaining four titles, due out before Christmas.

I don’t know this fellow — for all I know he works for NESFA Press. If he does he deserves a raise, since I ordered both books immediately after reading this.