Doorways in the Sand

Name: Doorways in the Sand
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Roger Zelazny
ISBN: 9798350890280

Author: Roger Zelazny

Narrator: Andrew J. Andersen

Unabridged: 7 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/30/2024

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction, Action & Adventure

Synopsis

Can You Hear Me Fred?

Fred Cassidy leads an idyllic life. As long as he remains a full time college student without a degree, he is provided a very generous stipend from his uncle's estate.

But after thirteen years of happy undergrad existence everything is about to change.

Cassidy's home is broken into and ransacked. When he enters he is assaulted by a former professor wanting to know where the alien artifact known as the star stone is. Cassidy manages to escape, only to discover that he is also being pursued by hired criminals, Anglophile zealots, government agents, and aliens.

Cassidy has no idea where the star stone is but he realizes that unless he finds it, one of these factions will eventually catch up to him and most likely kill him.

Doorways in the Sand is fast paced, humorous, and has the most lyrical prose of any of Zelazny's novels. It's simply a joy to listen to, and was nominated for both a Hugo and Nebula Award for best novel.

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 Kevin on April 06, 2023

Zelazny wrote this book in the mid-1970’s, first in serial form in ‘Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact’ and then later released in hardcover and paperback. It was nominated for Nebula and Hugo awards. This book came along about in middle of Zelazny’s career, after Lord of Light and in the middl......more

Goodreads review by Tadiana ✩Night Owl☽ on December 05, 2017

4.5 stars. In the 180 pages of this zany, funny and intelligent SF novel, Roger Zelazny tells the story of Fred Cassidy, an eternal college student doing his level best to never graduate, who gets caught up in a strange mystery of a missing alien artifact, the star-stone, which has no known purpose.......more

Goodreads review by Choko on December 03, 2017

*** 5 +++ *** Yeah, we are the Roger Zelazny Newbies Group and I wonder what has taken me so long to read any of his stuff!!! "..."Enter, pray." "In which order?" O bless this house, by all means, first. It could use a little grace." "Bless," I said, stepping in.”..." I am not sure how to start this......more

Goodreads review by Bradley on February 09, 2017

What the heck! I'm not an acrophiliac perpetual-student with a penchant for pilfering sentient stones, but after re-reading this book, I kinda want to be. :) If managing to avoid getting a degree in 13 years while still maintaining a full course load can be considered a special kind of genius, then o......more

Goodreads review by Jim on October 21, 2014

Reread Apr2011: Still a good, fun read. I was sick & needed something upbeat & relaxing. Zelazny to the rescue again. I don't know how many times I've read this, but each time his poetic prose & wry sense of humor have made it a treat. Dec2007: One of my favorite books by one of my favorite authors.......more