“At the end of the season of sorrows comes the time of rejoicing. Spring, like a well-oiled clock, noiselessly indicates this time.”

—  Roger Zelazny

First lines of Zelazny's first published short story, Passion Play (1962)

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American speculative fiction writer 1937–1995

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