“Book Descriptions: Unicorn Variations is a collection of stories and essays by author Roger Zelazny, published in 1983. The title story, "Unicorn Variation", was written as a result of Zelazny having been asked to contribute to two different upcoming anthologies — one collecting stories set in bars, and one collecting stories about unicorns. When Zelazny mentioned these requests to his close friend George R. R. Martin, the other told Zelazny of a third upcoming anthology — one which would collect stories about chess — and jokingly suggested that Zelazny write a story about playing chess against a unicorn in a bar, so that he could sell the story three times. Zelazny did just that and then went on to win a Hugo Award for the story.
Contents: Introduction (Unicorn Variations) [essay] (1983) Unicorn Variation (1981) The Last of the Wild Ones [Sam Murdock] (1981) Recital (1981) The Naked Matador (1981) The Parts That Are Only Glimpsed: Three Reflexes [essay] (1978) Dismal Light [Francis Sandow] (1968) Go Starless in the Night (1979) But Not the Herald (1965) A Hand Across the Galaxy (1967) The Force That Through the Circuit Drives the Current (1976) Home is the Hangman [Nemo] (1975) Fire and/or Ice, Exeunt Omnes, A Very Good Year ... [essay] (1983) Fire and/or Ice (1980) Exeunt Omnes (1980) A Very Good Year ... (1979) My Lady of the Diodes (1970) And I Only Am Escaped to Tell Thee (1981) The Horses of Lir (1981) The Night Has 999 Eyes (1964) Angel, Dark Angel (1967) Walpurgisnacht (1981) The George Business (1980) Some Science Fiction Parameters: A Biased View [essay] (1975)
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