So been back to reading Zelazny again and just finished it up. This is one is a fix up of his titled "My Name is Legion".
The three stories that are in this one revolve the exploits of a man who destroyed his punch cards and changed his face. He has no credit card, no birth certificate or even a passport for him in the international data bank.
And he has had many names. His job consists of taking ultra high risks for a massive global detective agency. His assignments are very lucrative, extremely vital and also very deadly. And his life is, more often than not, a virtual hell.
"My Name is Legion" is very fast paced and full of action. Zelazny really took some cues from the noir and crime fiction of the pulp era and mixed it in with his brand of SF, and it really shows. Despite how fast the stories go there are some introspective moments where he touches on certain topics such as the environment.
It's a quick read, and the stories are really decent. This one seems to be the only fix up that he had published in his lifetime, and it is one that I really enjoyed, even if it's not overly complex in anyway. Still have another of his novels, but that'll wait for a little while once I go through some of the other books I still have left to read.
by i-the-muso-1968