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Damnation Alley by Zelazny, Roger is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Damnation Alley about?
SUMMARY: You've gotta love to hate the 1977 movie Damnation Alley, a cheese-filled classic from sci-fi's cinematic canon. But there's at least one good thing you can say about this otherwise awful flick: it's prevented the movie's far superior source material from being forgotten. Roger Zelazny's post-apocalypse novel predates the George Peppard-Jan-Michael Vincent vehicle by about a decade and represents the fine storytelling talents of one of science fiction and fantasy's most daring writers (likely best remembered for his imaginative Amber series). Speaking of vehicles: the coolest part of the movie--and likely, thankfully, the only part most people remember--turns out to be even cooler in the book: the flame-spewing, .50-caliber-bullet-belching, grenade-throwing, gigantic all-terrain vehicle that's responsible for getting a crucial antiserum shipment from Los Angeles to Boston to stop a deadly plague. The driver, a despicable lowlife named Hell Tanner, has been given a not-so-difficult choice. He can either get the drugs to the East Coast intact, save humanity, and receive a full pardon for his crimes, or he can refuse and spend the rest of his life in a ''zebra suit.'' So what
Who reads Damnation Alley?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Zelazny, Roger
- Publisher
- I Books
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780743486620
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Science Fiction, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 3.55 / 5 (3,257 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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