"Fantastic Stories of Imagination", February 1965 (ed Cele G Lalli) (magazine): Annotated table of contents

Another one whose download link I seem to have lost.

While I haven't read any of the stories yet, descriptions suggest these are mostly fantasy.

Table of contents.

1. [novelet] Randall Garrett's "A Fortnight of Miracles": "It is hard on a man to have not one ... nor two ... but three vexish spells upon him. Such a man has need of a worthy mage & a goodly goblin ... & an author like this one who can get him out of black magic trouble without leaving any loose ends about."
2. [ss] Roger Zelazny's "Passage to Dilfar": "A day & a night had Dilvish ridden to warn of the coming slaughter, for all hope now rested with Dilfar--& with the horse that carried him there."
3. [ss] Ron Goulart's "Winterness": "When dealing with the spirit world, you can do things three ways: rarely, well-done, or medium. When a vanished judge & a buxom columnist are involved, it is perhaps better to settle for the medium."
4. [ss] Thomas M Disch's "The Vamp": "Once you marry a Transylvanian count, things are never what they used to be. Not even a good steak."
5. [serial - 2/2] John Brunner's "The Repairman of Cyclops".

Fact sheet.

Labeled: Vol 14 No 2.
Related: Fiction from old pulps; 1960s.

Free fiction: Roger Zelazny's "A Rose for Ecclesiastes"

At Cassie Carter's Web Pages at Michigan State University. [via Best Science Fiction Stories]
Caution: Bottom of the page has a comments section that has a lot of garbage Firefox cannot render. But main story text appears ok.

This is among the better known stories of Zelazny.

Related: Brief story summary; Stories of Roger Zelazny.

** Roger Zelazny's "A Rose for Ecclesiastes" (novelette, science fiction)

Intelligent long-lived race of Mars is dying because their men have been sterilized by a curious rain. A human visitor will offer them a way out.

Collected in.

1. Robert Silverberg (Ed)'s "The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume One, 1929-1964".
   

Fact sheet.

First published: F&SF, November 1963.
Rating: A

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** Roger Zelazny's "Lord of Light" (novel, fantasy)

Human colony on an extra-Sol world - built according to Indian mythology.

In spite of some sci-fi hand-waving, I think it's best classified as fantasy.

Caution: If you are a devout Hindu, you will very likely find it blasphemous. If you are from South Asia or Indo China, don't be surprised it you find a certain disconnect - apart from a few spelling mistakes, familiar mythological characters behave partly in familiar way & then suddenly in completely unfamiliar way. If you are from elsewhere, extensive references to unfamiliar imagery might make a somewhat tedious reading.

Fact sheet.

First published: ...
Rating: B

Note: Why is this post so short?