"01- Introduction by Roger Zelazny" - читать интересную книгу автора (Nebula Awards)

correctly, the folk-literature of the machine 'age. Without 'the
industrial revolution, you might be reading rewrites of the
Faerie Queene. But this is not the case. No. Those antipodal
themes, Pygmalion and Frankenstein, are with us still. Our
creations may kill or love. In this sense, the archetypes are
still valid, and probably always will be. Otherwise, though,
these writers were doing electric things long before Marshall
M came along. They project, expand, guess upon and just
plain fool around with themes as current as the headlines.
and as timeless as Auden's four terms of nonbeing: Dark-
ness, Silence, Nothing, Death.
In short, they're all of them good, hard-working stories,
calculated to play the Life-Death-Love-Hate game the same
as any others, but on their own terms: the expansions of
science and human awareness.
If you depart them at this point, you will be none the,
richer. Embrace them, and a world or three may be opened
before you.
Roger Zelazny