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This Immortal

This Immortal

This Immortal, serialized as ...And Call Me Conrad, is a science fiction novel by American author Roger Zelazny. In its original publication, it was abridged by the editor and published in two parts in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in October and November 1965. It tied with Frank Herbert's Dune for the 1966 Hugo Award for Best Novel.


“Love is a negative form of hatred.”

Source: This Immortal

“I wasn’t disappointed, inasmuch as I expected nothing.”

Source: This Immortal (1965), p. 29

“The absence of a monument can, in its own way, be something of a monument also.”

Source: This Immortal (1965), p. 60

“Be warned, therefore, that one does not go to hell to light a cigarette.”

Source: This Immortal (1965), p. 83

“Nothing we did in those days has caused a change.”

“Because of what we did, things remained as they were, rather than getting worse,” I told him.
Source: This Immortal (1965), p. 131

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