The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth, and Other Stories is a collection of science fiction short stories by American writer Roger Zelazny. It was published in 1971 by Doubleday.
Contents
Stories in the original edition: "The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth", winner of the 1965 Nebula Award for Best Novelette "The Keys to December" "Devil Car" "A Rose for Ecclesiastes" "The Monster and the Maiden" "Collector's Fever" "This Mortal Mountain" "This Moment of the Storm" "The Great Slow Kings" "A Museum Piece" "Divine Madness" "Corrida" "Love Is An Imaginary Number" "The Man Who Loved the Faioli" "Lucifer"
Stories added in later editions: "The Furies" "The Graveyard Heart"
Synopses
The title story, about extreme sportsmen who fish for "sea monsters" in the oceans of Venus, won the first Nebula Award for Best Novelette in 1965.
"This Mortal Mountain" is also about future extreme sports, concerning mountain climbing on a planet with a mountain tens of kilometers high, extending far beyond any breathable atmosphere.
"This Moment of the Storm" is about a constable on a distant colony planet, whose duties include the use of armed drone aircraft.
Reception
Dave Langford reviewed The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth for White Dwarf #87, and stated that "there are enough goodies here to prove this author had magic in his typewriter, for a while..."
