Doorways in the Sand - Roger Zelazny
After Lord of Light, Doorways in the Sand (1976) is probably Zelazny’s best-liked science fiction novel.
The inventive plot involves a frozen uncle, realistic bad guys, and undercover alien cops. It has wacky inventions: dog suit so alien coppers won’t be conspicuous on Earth; the Rhennius machine for reversing one’s self and others; and a star stone, the function of which must not be revealed in a review.
The likeable hero Fred Cassidy is an eternal student (a wise-acre polymath, similarly to other Zelaznian protagonists) and a parkour artist before parkour was cool.
Zelazny’s ideas were copious and odd, but, in the context of the universes in the stories, also consistent and reasonable.
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