Wheel of Fortune

by Roger Zelazny (editor), Dean Wesley Smith, Paul Dellinger

Original anthology of 21 stories and poems about gambling, by authors including Joe Haldeman, Jane M. Lindskold, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, and Nelson Bond.
There is a new «Amber» story, and an introduction, by Zelazny.

Contents
1 · Introduction · Roger Zelazny · in
5 · Atlantic City Blues · Joe Haldeman · pm
8 · Pipeline to Paradise · Nelson Bond · ss
27 · The Oddskeeper’s Daughter · William Browning Spencer · nv
49 · Kangaroo Straight · Jane M. Lindskold · ss
64 · Caution: Merge · Jeff Bredenberg · ss
81 · The Unbolted · Kathe Koja & Barry N. Malzberg · ss
98 · Crapshoot · Larry Segriff · ss
115 · Last Man Out · Dean Wesley Smith · ss
128 · Dice with the Universe · Paul Dellinger · ss
144 · A Bigger Game · Don Webb · ss
159 · The Vig · John DeChancie · ss
176 · The Bataan Gamble · Thomas M. K. Stratman · ss
191 · Tyger, Tyger Purring Loud · Gerald Hausman · ss
201 · A Round of Cards with the General · Karen Haber · nv
226 · Butterfly Wings · Nina Kiriki Hoffman · ss
240 · Blue Horse, Dancing Mountains · Roger Zelazny · ss
247 · Tip-Off · Michael A. Stackpole · nv
271 · The Casino Mirago · Gahan Wilson · ss
290 · Elvis Bearpaw’s Luck · William Sanders · nv
315 · The Tootsie Roll Factor · Richard A. Lupoff · nv
340 · lines composed on a noisy plane to Atlantic City · Joe Haldeman · pm

Genres: Fantasy, Anthologies, Science Fiction, Short Stories

342 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1995

About the author

Roger Joseph Zelazny was an American fantasy and science fiction writer known for his short stories and novels, best known for The Chronicles of Amber. He won the Nebula Award three times (out of 14 nominations) and the Hugo Award six times (also out of 14 nominations), including two Hugos for novels: the serialized novel ...And Call Me Conrad (1965), subsequently published under the title This Immortal (1966), and the novel Lord of Light (1967).

Reviews

[Paradoxhorizon · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting theme and a good variety of stories by several authors with little forewords by Zelazny and afterwords by the authors. Some really good stories among some decent ones.