Unicorn Variations

Желязны о Филипе К. Дике (из предисловия к A Hand Across The Galaxy):
...I was priveleged to do a book in a collaboration with Philip K. Dick - having long admired his ability to run reality through a wringer, a paper shredder and a high-speed blender in rapid succession, and then to reassemble the results into things rare and strange.

Robots are nice to work with. They mind their own business, and they never have anything to say.

Dismal Light

"How can you be happy out here, all alone?"
"I'm not. But it's better than being in town."
"You're wrong. They don't care as much as you think they do."

Dismal Light

These days, the contents of a magazine tend to come first, the cover subsequently commissioned to illustrate something within. But I can't complain about the old order of things, which paid a number of bills. Fred would send a reproduction of such a cover to a writer and request a story to go behind it. One of my better short stories — "The Man Who Loved the Faioli" — came about in such a fashion. Also, my absolute worst, but never mind...

I want to thank all of those people who've offered me employment in hardware stores, but I'd really prefer to keep on writing.

(Introduction)