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A Rose For Ecclesiastes Roger Zelazny
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Daniel Keyes, “Flowers for Algernon” (1959); Isaac Asimov, “Nightfall” (1941); Roger Zelazny, “A Rose for Ecclesiastes” (1963); Isaac Asimov, “The Bicentennial Man” (1976); George R. I'd never heard of Psychogeist, that's an awesome cover. Via the Grantbridge Street blog. A rose for ecclesiastes – grey morrow. Then I saw what is perhaps my favorite SF cover of all time – Bok's cover for the issue of Fantasy and Science Fiction featuring Roger Zelazny's “A Rose For Ecclesiastes”, perhaps my favorite all time SF short story. Man's fate is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath, man has no advantage over the animal. But here we are, 113 years after Wells' War of the Worlds and 48 years after Zelazny's “A Rose for Ecclesiastes” without being any closer to having human settlements on our red neighbor. The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction flipped the image and did not reproduce the colors as Bok wished. If you want to go short I'd recommend A Rose for Ecclesiastes - epic tale of an obsessed linguist seeking to communicate with the remaining handful of an alien race. Do you have a list of top covers that you don't have? I'd include the Hannes Bok cover for the Nov '62 F&SF – illustrating 'Rose for Ecclesiastes'. I always cry at the end of Flowers for Algernon and I also cried at the end of Zelazny's A Rose For Ecclesiastes the first time I read it. Here's a link to cover: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Rose_for_Ecclesiastes. For classic SF settings that science had removed from the realm of the possible: the watery Venus of The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth, and the ancient civilization of a dying Mars on A Rose for Ecclesiastes. At the 1992 Worldcon in Orlando, the original cover art of Roger Zelazny's “A Rose for Ecclesiastes” was on display in the art show. A bit out of control for my taste) -- which are plainly fantasy books to my taste -- as well as more Sci-Fi/alternate world stories such as This Immortal, Damnation Alley and especially his short work A Rose for Ecclesiastes. Bok's wrap-around cover illustration for Roger Zelazny's Hugo-winning “A Rose for Ecclesiastes”.