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You've gotta love to hate the 1977 movie Damnation Alley, a cheese-filled classic from sci-fi's cinematic canon. But there's at least one good thing you can say about this otherwise awful flick: it's prevented the movie's far superior source material from being forgotten. Roger Zelazny's post-apocalypse novel predates the George Peppard-Jan-Michael Vincent vehicle by about a decade and represents the fine storytelling talents of one of science fiction and fantasy's most daring writers (likely best remembered for his imaginative Amber series).
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Speaking of vehicles: the coolest part of the movie--and likely, thankfully, the only part most people remember--turns out to be even cooler in the book: the flame-spewing, .50-caliber-bullet-belching, grenade-throwing, gigantic all-terrain vehicle that's responsible for getting a crucial antiserum shipment from Los Angeles to Boston to stop a deadly plague. The driver, a despicable lowlife named Hell Tanner, has been given a not-so-difficult choice. He can either get the drugs to the East Coast intact, save humanity, and receive a full pardon for his crimes, or he can refuse and spend the rest of his life in a "zebra suit." So what's the catch? Thanks to World War III, Middle America is now an electrical-storm-torn, heavily irradiated playground for dino-sized Gila monsters, "freak spiders," humongous bats "that eat off the mutie fruit trees down Mexico way," and 120-foot-long snakes as big around as garbage cans. And the native humans still scrambling around the wasteland aren't much less dangerous.
Damnation Alley might not be Zelazny's best, but for reading on, say, a road trip, you can't do much better. Throw in some '60s-style, freak-out closing riffs, and a trip down the Alley becomes pretty hard to pass up. --Paul Hughes
Zelazny wrote many novels, short stories, and novellas, including Nebula and Hugo Award winners "24 VIEWS OF MOUNT FUJI, BY HOKUSAT", "PERMAFROST" and "HOME IS THE HANGMAN".
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- PublisherSphere Books Limited
- Publication date1973
- ISBN 10 0722194234
- ISBN 13 9780722194232
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages157
- IllustratorGordon C Davies
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Damnation Alley
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(1973)
ISBN 10: 0722194234
ISBN 13: 9780722194232
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Book Description Paperback: 7" x 4¼". Condition: Very Good: Light signs of wear. Cover Art: Gordon C Davies (illustrator). 1973 Edition. © 1969: A stand-alone novel by Roger Zelazny. 1st printing of 1973 edition:- Synopsis: Damnation Alley: three thousand miles of radio-active wasteland, torn by hurricane winds and giant fire storms, the domain of mutants and monsters, a wasteland few men had ever crossed. Hell Tanner: the last angel left alive, his gang wiped out in the Big Raid that destroyed most of America. Hell Tanner, the only man in California with a chance of getting through Damnation Alley to Boston with the plague serum the ravaged city needed to survive:- Review(s): "Roger Zelazny, who has won both the Hugo and Nebula awards, has created a terrifying story of an odyssey through a man-made hell" / "Very good" - The Observer:- (original cost £0.30). Seller Inventory # 19.015.00001
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