Damnation Alley

Name: Damnation Alley
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Roger Zelazny
ISBN: 9798350890228

Author: Roger Zelazny

Narrator: Paul Bellantoni

Unabridged: 3 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/12/2024

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction, Action & Adventure

Synopsis

Hell Tanner isn't the sort of guy you'd mistake for a hero: he's a fast-driving car thief, a smuggler, and a stone-cold killer. Facing life in prison for his various crimes, he's given a choice: Rot away his remaining years in a tiny jail cell or drive cross-country and deliver a case of antiserum to the plague-ridden people of Boston, Massachusetts. The chance of a full pardon does wonders for getting his attention. And don't mistake this mission of mercy for any kind of normal road trip-not when there are radioactive storms, hordes of carnivorous beasts, and giant, mutated scorpions to be found along every deadly mile between Los Angeles and the East Coast. But then, this is no normal part of America, you see. This is Damnation Alley . . .

About Roger Zelazny

Roger Zelazny was a science fiction and fantasy writer, a six-time Hugo award winner, and a three-time Nebula award winner. He published more than forty novels in his lifetime. His first novel This Immortal, serialized in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction under the title "...And Call Me Conrad," won the Hugo award for best novel. Lord of Light, his third novel, also won the Hugo award and was nominated for the Nebula award. He died at age 58 from colon cancer. Zelazny was posthumously inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2010.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Henry on May 18, 2023

In some unstated date in the future, a three day war occurred, not a long one by historical standards, but bad enough.....Missiles fall on the Earth and life virtually ceases as civilization collapses. Apparently around twenty or thirty years later, the few people still alive are struggling to survi......more

Goodreads review by TK421 on March 10, 2011

Okay, this was my first full Zelazny experience, and I have to say I liked it—a lot. The story is simple enough: in a post apocalyptic America, where the country has been split into two nations, one being the Nation of California, the other being whatever the citizens of Boston have decided to call......more

Goodreads review by Willow on September 20, 2013

I remember when I was a wee one, I watched the movie Damnation Alley, and I was terrified by the flesh eating cockroach scene. I’ve always wanted to see it again, because I know the film has got to be the best, craptastic, colossal turkey ever! Yay. :D It’s not an easy movie to come by though. :( This......more

Goodreads review by Jim on December 22, 2014

18Dec2014: It's been a while since I last read this & I need a Zelazny fix. I've been attempting to read half a dozen freebies & they just aren't cutting it. I was beginning to think I just didn't like reading any more, but I had trouble stopping today at lunch. In some ways, this isn't one of Zelazn......more