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| | Ohio Reading Road Trip Roger Zelazny Biography |
 | | Zelazny knew then that he wanted to pursue a career in science fiction; he also knew that he needed to live a little more before he would be successful at it. | | | Science fiction/fantasy writer Roger Zelazny knew early on that he wanted to be a writer. | | | By the time 1963 rolled around, Zelazny had published seventeen more short stories. |
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http://www.ohioreadingroadtrip.org/zelazny
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| | Zelazny is capable of speaking to the soul (or to the subconscious mind, anyway). | | | Like all of Zelazny's work, the prose has a tendency to be a little bit on the flacid side, except where Zelazny is trying to be poetic, which he is never as successful at as he might desire to be. | | | Reading the better of Zelazny's books reminds me of Robert Graves' contention that he knew when he was reading true poetry because the hairs on the back of his neck would stand on end and his wiskers would bristle, making it easier to shave. |
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http://sf.www.lysator.liu.se/sf_archive/sf-texts/books/Z/Zelazny,Roger.mbox
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| | Lord of Light- The Novel |
| | Zelazny's Lord of Light and The Amber Series are considered amongst the best SF novels ever written. | | | Sadly, Roger is no longer with us, there will be no more of these brilliant tour-de-forces, but this will stand as one of his finest gifts to the world. | | | These deicrats (as Zelazny calls them) through centuries of "divine" rule, have become corrupt, and only one among them will openly oppose their tyranny. |
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http://www.lordoflight.com/lolnovel.html
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| | Roger Zelazny |
| | Zelazny's interest in magic, myths and dreams are already at present in these early stories which are considered among his best works. | | | Zelazny considered Dick a writer's writer, "rich enough in fancy that he can afford to throw away in a paragraph ideas another writer might build a book upon." | | | Creatures of Light and Darkness (1969) was inspired by the gods of ancient Egypt. |
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http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/zelazny.htm
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| | Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light |
| | The essence of the story concerns a group of colonists from Earth who travel to a distant planet and become like gods to the indigenous population, whose society is set up in imitation of Hinduism and ancient India. | | | This anthology included his story "A Rose For Ecclesiastes," a story which — as opposed to some in the collection — totally captivated me, telling the tale of a poet sent on an early Mars expedition to act as translator to the native population. | | | As a result, the unwary reader is likely to be surprised when he physically picks up the book to read (initially) a series of mystical tales about what seems to be India. |
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http://www.greenmanreview.com/book/book_zelazny_lordoflight.html
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| | The Absolutely Weird Bookshelf Hardcover Science Fiction and Fantasy Books: Z |
| | Zelazny, Roger Trumps of Doom Underwood Miller, Los Angeles 1985 1st ed, limited edition (#217 of 500), in plush box, F in dj. | | | Zelazny, Roger Blood of Amber Underwood Miller, Los Angeles 1986 1st ed, limited edition (#92 of 400), in plush box, F in dj. | | | Zelazny, Roger The First Chronicles of Amber Science Fiction Book Club, New York 1999 Book club, 1st ed thus, near F in dj. |
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http://www.strangewords.com/weirdbooks/weirdz.html
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| | Roger Zelazny by Jane Lindskold |
| | Although frequently praised for the artistry of his prose, Roger was equally proud of being a working writer who could write an essay on a tight deadline or a short story to meet the request of an editor. | | | He had a reputation for knowing just about anything and one of my favorite memories of his relationship with his kids was the night that Trent's long-time friend, Matt Suhre, called because a paragraph in his biology textbook didn't make sense. | | | Another powerful thing about Roger was that he did not talk down to new writers. |
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http://zelazny.corrupt.net/lindskold.html
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| | The style of this book is unusual, and a bit difficult: The story is not told in a smooth narrative, but in a series of short, often disjoint, episodes, and by the time the tale is done, most of these episodes have fallen into place. | | | My personal judgment is that Zelazny could not make this work as well as he'd hoped, but that it's a remarkable effort. | | | Indeed, his inclusion represents a problem: Not only is he still alive, but he is still publishing (much more actively than, say, Hal Clement), so it might seem that I'm implying that his best work is behind him -- which would be tactless. |
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http://sf.www.lysator.liu.se/sf_archive/sf-texts/Belated_Reviews/018.Zelazny,Roger
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| | Amber |
| | Zelazny's Amber Chronicles consist of ten books revolving around the Princes of Amber and their struggle against one another for the throne and against the forces of evil for the survival of Amber. | | | Zelazny successfully takes the reader back and forth from Earth the the alternate dominions with skill and magnificent detail without the overpowering technical aspects of scientific explanations some sci-fi/fantasies feel necessary. | | | If you have never read anything by Roger Zelazny, you are in for a treat. |
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http://www.whimsplace.com/Misc/Amber.htm
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| | Roger Zelazny |
| | All I know of Roger Zelazny as a person is what he revealed of himself in his work; and that, perhaps, is as it should be. | | | Zelazny often liked to work the mythology of various cultures into his books: Navajo folklore found its way into Eye of Cat, Egyptian deities were featured in Creatures of Light and Darkness, and Lord of Light was based on the Hindu pantheon. | | | This series, which houses ten books split into two five book chronicles, began with Nine Princes in Amber in 1970 and ended with Prince of Chaos in 1991. |
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http://www.stmoroky.com/reviews/authors/zelazny.htm
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| | Roger Zelazny, The Great Book of Amber |
| | Zelazny published the first book in 1970 and the fifth in 1978. | | | The second set, beginning with Trumps of Doom and ending with Prince of Chaos, is told from the viewpoint of Corwin's son Merlin, a prince of Chaos, and was published throughout the latter part of the 1980s. | | | The second set of books tells the story of Corwin's son Merlin, or Merle, as he is known on the shadow Earth. |
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http://www.greenmanreview.com/amber.html
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| | Roger Zelazny |
| | One of the most influential writers of science fiction’s New Wave era, author Roger Zelazny is best known for such works as Creatures of Light and Darkness (1969), Lord of Light (1967), Damnation Alley (translated to film in 1977), and his Amber Chronicles series. | | | Marrying as he did classic mythologies with technologically produced magics, Zelazny often referred to his works as "Science-Fantasy". | | | Later, Eye of the Cat (1982) drew upon Navajo religion and folklore. |
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http://www.nndb.com/people/704/000023635
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| | Roger Zelazny's Amber series |
| | Zelazny is no longer available to read the last three titles, would there be a similar demand for the remaining titles read by another reader? | | | We could try to match the style (we have tapes of him reading abridged versions of _Sign of Chaos_ and _Knight of Shadows_), but we would not be able to match the voice or the subtleties of Zelazny's reading of his own works. | | | Books > Science Fiction Books > Roger Zelazny's... |
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http://www.talkaboutabook.com/group/alt.books.sf/messages/3466.html
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| | Crescent Blues Book Views Roger Zelazny, Jane Lindskold: Lord Demon |
| | The second of two novels left unfinished at Roger Zelazny's death, Lord Demon evokes images of Zelazny's famous Amber Chronicles even as it tips its red-feathered cap to Ernest Bramah's tales of Kai Lung. | | | Kai Wren, the Lord Demon who once slew a god, finds his own thousand-year peace shattered by the death of his human companion. | | | Lindskold also deserves generous praise for the smoothness of the finished book. |
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http://www.crescentblues.com/2_4issue/zalazny.shtml
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| | Donnerjack by Roger Zelazny |
| | However, these gods believe they are the original gods of Earth, and that the creation of Virtu has merely allowed them to be revitalized. | | | I could not tell you why I had not heard of or read Zelazny before, but for some reason, despite his great popularity, neither the Jacksonville Public Library where I grew up nor the Brown University Library, where I practically lived, had a copy. | | | The book was about creatures who played the roles of Egyptian gods, using advanced (and mostly fanciful) technologies. |
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http://www.iiipublishing.com/donnerjk.htm
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| | Zelazny rtf |
| | Thank God (or at least Amber) for Roger Zelazny. | | | Like an exotic track in familiar sand ("where'd that come from?"), "Rose" and "Lamps" signalled a sea change in SF, from a literature written by scientists for schoolboys to a literature written by the schoolboys (and girls) themselves; by truants and troublemakers and poets. | | | To have been embarrassed would have been ungenerous. |
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http://www.sff.net/people/TBisson/zelazny.html
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| | Amazon.com: Books: The Dawn of Amber: Roger Zelazny's Dawn of Amber |
| | Fans of the late Roger Zelazny's popular Amber series should flock to this workmanlike, authorized prequel, the first of a projected trilogy, by Betancourt (Infection and three other Star Trek novels). | | | This book violates the history established in the Amber novels written by Roger Zelazny in more ways than it follows them. | | | Betancourt is a good author but he's simply not Zelazny no matter how much he tries to write like him. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0743474708?v=glance
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| | R. Zelazny's Amber Dictionary |
| | The Chronicles of Amber (the cover of the first volume is scanned at the left) is a series of 10 novels (5 in the original Chronicles and 5 in the second series) written by Roger Zelazny. | | | All the books have been recently (1994-1995) reprinted by Avon Books, so your local bookstore is likely to carry them. | | | It gives expanded versions of the background stories for each major and minor character, including some stuff that's not in the book. |
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http://www.stwing.upenn.edu/~avm/Amber.shtml
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| | Alibris: Roger Zelazny |
| | This is a magnificent science fiction epic about two virtual worlds that exist alongside each other, complete with separate gods and goddesses one set of which attempts to cross over and rule the... | | | NINE PRINCES IN AMBER is the first in the classic CHRONICLES OF AMBER, a series that exemplifies the Zelazny style, in which the first-person narrator, a tough-talking, ruthless (but essentially good-hearted) man must confront a menace from his mysterious past. | | | This is the first book in the Merlin series of Amber books. |
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http://www.alibris.com/search/books/author/Zelazny,Roger
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| | The Annotated Amber |
| | Theodore Krulik, in his biography of Roger Zelazny, opines that Nine Princes in Amber follows the form of the typical space opera, in that the protagonist starts out in the here and now and then goes off into some fantastic adventure. | | | An interesting point that Krulik couldn't make because the Merlin series hadn't been started yet at the time he wrote his bio of Zelazny is that in the Merlin Series, Dara is nearly a queen of Chaos, while in Book V of The Faerie Queene Duessa allegorically stands for Mary, Queen of Scots. | | | But like so many of these phrases, it comes directly from Shakespeare, and I'd wager that Roger Zelazny (whose master's thesis was on Elizabethan and Jacobean drama) knew exactly which play spawned it. |
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| | Crescent Blues Artist Interview: "Ron Walotsky: The Fine Art of Covers" |
| | Just last year I was working on Donnerjack for Roger Zelazny, the book that he was working on when he died. | | | Zelazny's the only author where I actually sent the original painting of Lord of Light to him -- as a thank you note for giving me the pleasure of reading that book. | | | I did Lord of Light, which was Roger Zelazny's first book. |
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| | The SF Site Featured Review: Roger Zelazny's The Dawn of Amber |
| | The novel chronicles the adventures of Oberon, whom we know from Zelazny's books to have been a much-married and very fecund King of Amber. | | | Amber was part of the reason why I first installed the late great Roger Zelazny in my own private literary pantheon. | | | Several of his novels and short stories are considered landmarks, including Lord of Light, Creatures of Light and Darkness, "Home is the Hangman," and "A Rose for Ecclesiastes." The 10-volume Chronicles of Amber is regarded as a classic fantasy series. |
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| | Roger Zelazny |
| | But the royal family is torn apart by jealousies and suspicion; the disappearance of the patriarch Oberon has intensified the internal conflict by leaving the throne apparently up for grabs; and amnesia has robbed Corwin, Crown Prince of Amber his memory - even the fact that he is rightful heir to the throne. | | | ‘Zelazny, telling of gods and wizards, uses magical words as if he himself were a wizard.’ Philip Jose Farmer | | | If you've ever asked yourself what would have happened if Philip Marlowe had been Odysseus... |
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| | Dreaming American Gods: an Interview With Neil Gaiman - R A I N T A X I o n l i n e |
| | I think Roger was probably the best fantasy/SF writer of the and #146;60s and and #146;70s when he was on form. | | | She wrote back and she said, you know, Roger would have loved this book. | | | Rain Taxi: You dedicate American Gods to "Kathy Acker and Roger Zelazny, and all points between." How do you view the literary continuum, and how do you see yourself in it? |
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| | Roger Zelazny Page |
| | Zelazny's comments on other authors and their books. | | | includes the mention "Roger Zelazny died as I completed the first chapter of The Wake, and his memorial informed the second chapter." | | | I read it for an English project a few years back, so here's my report on the book. |
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| | Roger Zelazny |
| | Even so one feels that even at his worst, Zelazny was still writing to please himself, and was surprised and gratified that others shared his enjoyment of his own work, whereas Adams wrote as if he was trying to be funny (and succeeded with his first books but failed with the later ones). | | | For some reason it is easier to forgive Roger Zelazny for writing bad books in his later career - in particular the second Amber series which are internally inconsistent and transform some of the best developed characters of the first series into cardboard cut-outs; and also his awfully feeble comic collaborations with Robert Sheckley. | | | The two things I like most about Zelazny are his writing style and his treatment of religion. |
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| | Zelazny had a rare gift for conceiving and portraying worlds with plausible magic systems, powers, and supernatural beings. | | | His captivating descriptions of the nuts and bolts of magical workings in his imagined worlds set his writing apart from otherwise similar authors. | | | Roger Zelazny (May 13, 1937 - June 14, 1995) was a US writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels. |
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http://www.informationgenius.com/encyclopedia/r/ro/roger_zelazny.html
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| | Fantasy Reference Works, An Omnibus Review |
| | The best bibliography, Daniel Levack's Amber Dreams, was never updated after its initial printing in 1983, 12 years before Roger passed on.) The survey begins necessarily with the Greek and Roman traditions and touches on the Indian, Asian, Medieval, and Renaissance as well. | | | Interested in knowing what Roger Zelazny wrote -- up to the 1998 cutoff date for this publication -- and what each book is about? | | | Anatomy of Wonder: A Critical Guide to Science Fiction is the companion volume to Fantasy Literature, but it bears noting as there's some overlap between the volumes in terms of the authors covered, i.e. |
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| | NLS/BPH: Minibibliographies, The Amber Series by Roger Zelazny |
| | The Roger Zelazny manuscript collection was established in 1966 at Syracuse University Library. | | | Zelazny's work has been published in nine languages including Greek, Hebrew, and Japanese. | | | Following is a list of the books of the Amber series in the order in which they should be read according to |
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| | ZELAZNY MSS. |
| | Doubleday has published much of Zelazny's work, including the five-volume Amber series, and most of the correspondence concerns contracts, revisions of copy-edited manuscripts, and design and texts of book jackets for that series. | | | Included in the collection is a copy of the text for the jacket flap for Sign of the Unicorn corrected by Zelazny. | | | Zelazny also discusses his writings and publications with other houses, as well as ideas for future novels. |
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| | Amber Roger Zelazny's Amber |
| | Online References It appears there are far more resources devoted to Roger Zelazny than this WorldFAQ is able to list. | | | Chris Bickford -- Roger Zelazny -- Bibliography http://www.mcs.net/~cbickfor/homepage/amber/general/zelazny.htm Zelazny and Amber http://www.ghgcorp.com/it/scott/zelazny/ Roger Zelazny, une page non officielle... | | | http://sf.emse.fr/AUTHORS/RZELAZNY/rz.html (This site is in French, Francais) Roger Zelazny on the Web http://www.enol.com/~ferenczy/rogerz.html Fun People Archive - 16 Jun -- Roger Zelazny http://www.empire.net/~psl/Fun_People/1995/1995AWT.html Obituary for Roger Zelazny Roger Zelazny Page http://wsrv.clas.virginia.edu/~npt4g/zelazny/zelazny.html Contains info and links about MUSHes. |
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| | Reviews: March 1982 |
| | There is nothing at all to indicate that Zelazny has a group of short stories featuring a sword-and-sorcery protagonist, Dilvish the Damned, which has recently generated the first novel in a trilogy (The Changing Land, 1981). | | | The Delany has ones on juvenilia, unpublished speeches, and non-fiction, and Delany collections; the Zelazny, on nominations, awards, and honors; foreign-language editions; and Zelazny collections. | | | In addition, the works of two authors like Delany and Zelazny, who write in a variety of genres and media, would be clarified by appendices that list these distinctions. |
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| | In Search of Creative Solitude in Modern Fantasy: An Essay on the Fascination with Evil |
| | Schlobin, Roger C. "Children of a Darker God: A Taxonomy of Deep Horror Fictin and Film and Their Mass Appeals." Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 1, No. 1 (1988): 25-50. | | | All three authors are well known for their common theme of the artistic struggle to bring order from chaos through individual will. | | | And, while a case can be made for Machiavellianism as the predominant theme of Zelazny's Amber series, the concept of the eternal cycle of art dragging form from chaos is also extremely important and a good, if rare, example of creative solitude. |
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| | Roger Zelazny |
| | The world lost one of its greatest authors when Roger Zelazny died. | | | I deliberately did not qualify that with "science fiction." I haven't read anything else by Jane Lindskold, so I don't know much about her on her own, but Donnerjack is a really good book. | | | Roger Zelazny was one of the greatest writers ever. |
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| | I'd loved Roger with all my heart, but I was only thirty-three when he died. | | | More than anything else, I wanted those last two books to be worthy of Roger. | | | I followed Roger's lead, studied his tricks, remembered his story values -- which were sometimes quite different from mine. |
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| | Fictionwise eBooks: Roger Zelazny |
| | Chaos and Amber by John Gregory Betancourt & Roger Zelazny [Fantasy/Science Fiction] | | | Alert me when new Roger Zelazny titles are added | | | Roger Zelazny possessed a unique, dazzling talent; his... |
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| | Powell's Books - Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny |
| | In a distinguished career which produced many bold, award-winning works, this towering tale of invention and adventure may be Roger Zelazny's single most brilliant achievement. | | | Powell's Books - Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny | | | Earth is long since dead.On a colony planet, a band of men has gained control of technology, made themselves immortal, and now rule their world as the gods of the Hindu pantheon.Only one dares oppose them: he who was once Siddhartha and is now Mahasamatman, Binder of Demons, Lord of Light. |
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| | THE SURVIVAL OF THE FOOL IN MODERN HEROIC FANTASY |
| | Dilvish has been cursed by the Dark One, and for two-hundred years, his body stood as a statue while his soul suffered in Hell, his punishment for saving a sacrificial virgin. | | | Roger Zelazny, "Tower of Ice," in Flashing Swords No. 5: Demons and Daggers, ed. | | | This is why Calvino’s Agilulf fails: he hasn’t the balancing power of the fool nor the social acceptance of the hero. |
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| | The Black Unicorn Chronicles |
| | This is my favorite piece of Amber- related reading material which plays after the last book Roger Zelazny wrote. | | | The best way of reading this story, is right after the last book Roger Zelazny wrote. | | | If you're not familiar with the Amber-books, the Cosmology-chapter might give you some insights in how the storyline develops until the first chapter. |
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| | Review of ROGER ZELAZNY'S THE DAWN OF AMBER by John Gregory Bethancourt |
| | THE DAWN OF AMBER is set in the late author Roger Zelazny's Amber universe (see BooksForABuck.com reviews of novels by Roger Zelazny) in the days before the creation of Amber and the shadow reflections that surround it. | | | Author John Gregory Bethancourt does a good job conveying the feel that Zelazny created in his Amber novels. | | | Oberon is a soldier, nothing more, and he's fighting a losing and doomed war. |
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| | in the Shadow of Greatness: Game WISH Archives |
| | But then, maybe Zelazny's Chaos isn't playable either. | | | Because none of those things might be true. | | | A spearate House of Chaos from each of separate authors. |
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| | Roger Zelazny Main Page |
| | This web-page is dedicated to both the memory and works of Science Fiction author Roger Zelazny. | | | On the Books list you will see a series of thumbnail images of the book covers. | | | For convenience I have divided this list into two: Books and Short Stories, arranged chronologically by year of publication and alphabetically within each year. |
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| | Amazon.ca: Books: The Reader's Guide to Roger Zelazny |
| | Amazon.ca: Books: The Reader's Guide to Roger Zelazny | | | Look for books like The Reader's Guide to Roger Zelazny by subject: | | | Top of Page : The Reader's Guide to Roger Zelazny |
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| | Baharna Books |
| | H. Pugmire, Joseph S. Pulver, Stanley C. Sargent, William Browning Spencer, Richard Tierney, Roger Zelazny | | | Encyclopedia Cthulhuiana, Guide to the Cthulhu Cult, The Necronomicon Files, The Book of Dzyan |
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| | 24 Views of Mount Fuji |
| | The story was inspired by the protean face of the mountains near his Santa Fe home, and on an abridged collection of Hokusai's prints with which he was familiar. | | | In 1985 Roger Zelazny wrote "24 Views of Mount Fuji, by Hokusai", for which he won a Hugo award in 1986. |
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http://www.stmoroky.com/reviews/gallery/hokusai/24views.htm
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| | Camelot In Four Colors, Part 5 |
| | Zelazny's story (which was also adapted for an episode of the 1980's version of the Twilight Zone televsion series) is a fantasy set in modern times in which a world-weary Lancelot forms an alliance with Morgan Le Fay against an awakened Merlin. | | | (Zelazny is also the author of the marginally-Arthurian | | | Adapted from the 1980 short story by Roger Zelazny by James B. Zimmerman. |
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| | SF REVIEWS.NET: Nine Princes in Amber / Roger Zelazny |
| | In 1999, all ten Amber novels were published together in one whopping huge trade-paperback omnibus edition titled The Great Book of Amber. | | | Corwin and Random return, though magical means that Zelazny disdains to explain fully so as, presumably, not to rob the story of its poetry, to Amber; there Corwin's memory is restored through an ordeal involving a magical Pattern, and the fight against Eric is quickly joined after that. | | | Reacquainted with two siblings, his sister Flora and brother Random, Corwin learns, gradually, of his true identity even as Eric, fearing his return to Amber, is sending thugs and killers after him. |
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| | Roger Zelazny Bibliography |
| | Lord of the Fantastic: Stories in Honor of Roger Zelazny | | | Most of his novels deal, one way or another, with gods and rogues, often with gods who are rogues, like Sam in Lord of Light, who reinvents Buddhism as a vehicle for political subversion against his fellow-crew members who have appointed themselves as immortal gods in a colony whose social system derives from classical Hinduism. | | | Roger Zelazny made his name with a group of novellas which demonstrated just how intense an emotional charge could be generated by the stock imagery of sf; the most famous of these is 'A Rose for Ecclesiastes' in which a poet struggles to convince dying and sterile Martians that life is worth continuing. |
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