Ahira's Hangar

This is a collection of short stories by Zelazny. The names of the included stories are:

Comes Now the Power
For a Breath I Tarry
Engine at the Heartspring's Center
Halfjack
Home is the Hangman
Permafrost
Loki 7281
Mana from Heaven
24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai
Come Back to the Killing Ground, Alice, my Love
The Last Defender of Camelot
Our lives are the songs that sing the universe into existence.~David Zindell
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Thought I'd give a little summary of each story as I read it (I'm working through them right now.)

Comes Now the Power
A man loses his special mental powers after undergoing a nasty divorce. He seeks out someone who can help him regain what he has lost...

For a Breath I Tarry
A very enjoyable story that is somewhat based on the Biblical story of Job, but with some very interesting twists. It also has some strong overtones of Faust. I really liked it.
Our lives are the songs that sing the universe into existence.~David Zindell
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I haven't gotten to that one yet, but will be very happy to when I do.

The main character of For a Breath I Tarry was an AI named Frost. That was a really good story!

Engine at Heartspring's Center
A very sad story about a cyborg...

Halfjack
The story of a starship pilot, I also liked this one a lot... Our lives are the songs that sing the universe into existence.~David Zindell
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Home is the Hangman
A very thought provoking story about an AI unit used to explore outer space and of his four human "parents"... Our lives are the songs that sing the universe into existence.~David Zindell
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Permafrost
a very odd story of an unusual revenge of a woman upon a man, set upon a frigid planet where winter lasts for 50 years...

Loki 7281
a story told from the POV of Zelazny's computer, who ghostwrites his novels and controls his life...and who is the ringleader of a bunch of sentient computers who plot against their masters...

Our lives are the songs that sing the universe into existence.~David Zindell
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Mana from Heaven
This one seems almost a rehearsal for the second Amber chronicles. There is an immortal sorcerer who has a mysterious enemy trying to kill him for unknown reasons...and a human girl with the potential to be a sorceress... Our lives are the songs that sing the universe into existence.~David Zindell
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24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai

A story which very much deserves its Hugo Award. And the first thing I've read by Zelazny from a woman's POV! And he did a great job with it -- I wish he had used a female POV more often! It tells the story of Mari, a terminally ill woman who has come on a pilgrimage to Mt. Fuji in Japan, and who must prepare herself both emotionally and psychologically to confront a most interesting stalker...
Our lives are the songs that sing the universe into existence.~David Zindell
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Come Back to the Killing Ground, Alice, My Love

An assassin is hired by a cloned woman to destroy the pocket universe created by her originator's dead husband's AI devise -- but all is NOT what it seems...

The Last Defender of Camelot
Lancelot, alive for the past thousand years, becomes Camelot's last defender...from an unexpected and deadly threat...
Our lives are the songs that sing the universe into existence.~David Zindell
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