Roger Zelazny's Alien Speedway #1: Clypsis [Mass Market Paperback]

Jeffrey A. Carver (Author)

Book Description

Series: Roger Zelazny's Alien Speedway, Book 1 | Publication Date: September 1, 1987

Imagine Clypsis, an entire solar system designed as the most awesome racetrack in the history of the sport.
Imagine personality-implanted robots, whose knowledge and influence can make or break a racer's career, and fusion-fueled ships that move at extraordinary speeds.
Imagine a young hero from Earth, braving the unknown to reach Clypsis, where his dream of being a faster-than-light racer can come true.
Enter the imagination of Nebula and Hugo Award-winner Roger Zelazny. Share the dream of Mike Murray as he makes his way from the racing pit to the cockpit of the universe's most dangerous and exhilarating challenge.
Roger Zelazny and Jeffrey A. Carver launch a sensational series with technical blueprints of the racing ships by visionary automotive designer Hayashi.

A Byron Preiss Book

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"A nice coming of age tale.  Carver's got the energy of the track, the obsession that makes people attempt the impossible down cold. This is a good book." 
 
--Chuq Von Rospach, Otherrealms

The greatest racers and the fastest vehicles...come together for the most exciting races ever run. Carver and his successors may make fusion race groupies out of us yet. --Dan Chow, Locus --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Spectra (September 1, 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0553265369
• ISBN-13: 978-0553265361
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,952,246 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Kindle readers: Would you like a glimpse behind the scenes of my writing of The Chaos Chronicles? The ebook versions of Neptune Crossing, Strange Attractors, and The Infinite Sea now include all-new Afterwords--my reflections on the evolution of the series and my experience in writing each book. I've kept the prices low on these editions to encourage you to give them a try if you're new to my work. I hope you enjoy them!

Here's a little about me:

A Midwesterner by birth and upbringing (I grew up in Huron, Ohio), I've lived in New England ever since attending college at Brown University, in Rhode Island. Now I live outside Boston with my wife and daughters, and also with a boxer named Hermione and a cat named Moonlight.

I've loved science fiction since I first began to read, and from the time I began writing, I always knew my first love was going to be SF. I'm not sure where you'd place me as a writer: I love astronomy and cosmology and hard SF concepts, and yet the characters are the most important thing to me in any story, whether it's a story I'm reading or a story I'm writing. It's the people, and the sense of wonder, that have always made science fiction--and science!--so awe-inspiring to me. Basically, I have always tried to write stories that I would want to read myself.

Some years ago, I developed and hosted on the air an educational TV series fo r middle-school classrooms, called Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy--teaching kids the basics of how to turn ideas into stories. That later turned into a computer-based course called, oddly enough, Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing. In 2005, I decided it was about time to put the information online as a public service, available for free to any aspiring writer. It's online now, and you can use it anytime you like, just by going to http://www.writesf.com.

I also invite you to stop by and read my regular blog, at http://starrigger.blogspot.com, or my web site at http://www.starrigger.net.

Thanks for visiting! And please take a look at the video trailer for my novel Sunborn. If you'd like to view it in full-screen for full effect, you can do that at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K03RMcSeiY4.

--Jeffrey A. Carver

Customer Reviews

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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A very well thought out creative Science-Fiction escapade., July 28, 1998

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This review is from: Roger Zelazny's Alien Speedway #1: Clypsis (Mass Market Paperback)

This great book by Roger Zelazny focuses on a teenager fugitive from earth trying to earn a name for himself in Clypsis: an entire system devoted to histories most exciting sport, racing in the stars! Alright that sounds dumb, I admit, but it really is a killer book.