 Cover of first edition (hardcover) | |
| Author | Roger Zelazny |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Vaughn Bodē |
| Cover artist | Vaughn Bodē |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Children |
| Publisher | D. M. Grant |
Publication date | 1992 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 45 |
| ISBN | 1-880418-00-2 |
| OCLC | 40589566 |
Way Up High is a children's book by American writer Roger Zelazny.[1] It is one of two stories he wrote for children, the other being Here There Be Dragons,[2] and one of three books without heroic protagonists.[3] One thousand copies of each of the two books signed by Zelazny were published in 1992 with illustrations by Vaughn Bodē.
Zelazny wrote Here There Be Dragons and Way Up High in 1968-69. He admired the work of underground comics artist Vaughn Bodē and commissioned him to illustrate the two books. The drawings were exhibited at the 1969 World Science Fiction Convention in St. Louis, but before the books could be published Bodē informed Zelazny that although Zelazny owned the pictures he did not have the reproduction rights. Christopher S. Kovacs in his literary biography of Zelazny explains the issue: “Zelazny saw the book as two of his tales illustrated by Bodē, but Bodē viewed it as a showcase of his art illuminated by Zelazny’s text.” The publication of the books foundered when Zelazny and Bodē insisted on equal royalties. Bodē died in 1975 and his estate agreed to the publication of the books with Bodē’s illustrations in 1992.[4] Zelazny dedicated Way Up High to his daughter, Shannon, and Here There Be Dragons to her best friend Lexie Strumor.
- ^ "Roger Zelazny". Worlds without End. Retrieved 16 October 2011.
- ^ Lindskold 1993, p. 118
- ^ Lindskold 1993, p. 113
- ^ Kovacs 2009, p. 269