Roger Zelazny

Trent Zelazny is the author of the novel Destination Unknown, to be released by Brick Tower Press in December of 2009. He is also the author of the collection of thriller/horror short stories entitled The Day the Leash Gave Way and Other Stories to be released by Wilder Publications in late...

by Roger Zelazny! I've never seen or read that one before; should be interesting. Anyone else nabbed any good Zelazny books at a library, thrift store, or somesuch?

Roger Zelazny; The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny: Volume Two: Power & Light, Roger Zelazny; The Collected Short Works of Poul Anderson: Volume 1: ... and more »

By Summer Brooks We will commission introductions and/or essays from family, friends and writers who were fans of Roger Zelazny’s work. As of this date, Robert Silverberg has contributed a general introduction. One of our editors has written some biographical essays to spread among the volumes.

 France Although I haven't seen much direct commentary on these points, Roger Zelazny addressed many of them in both Lord of Light and Creatures of Light and Darkness." "I don't work with pantheons much in my fantasy, and when I do they're not tidy, ...

 CA - Tim Janson Passing away at just 58 years old, Zelazny left behind one of the most detailed and engrossing fantasy series ever written, “The Chronicles of Amber”. Zelazney successfully blended science and fantasy into an epic series as the Princes of Amber battle ...

Roger Zelazny’s Amber - You have two cows, all other cows are shadow. A Song of Ice and Fire - You have two cows. They both get killed. Philip K. Dick - You have two cows. One of them watches you when your back is turned. The other has stolen your drugs on behalf of the government.

 NY By Jim Reader on March 5, 2009 7:39 AM "Lord of Light" - Roger Zelazny. Sweeping epic, hi-tech Hindu gods/goddesses, massive battles mixed with philosophy and soap opera... kind of like "Dune" but somewhat less involved. By Mike Scott on March 5, ...

By Dominique Currently reading Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny. Still about a third of the way through, but I am very much blown away. The language is enchanting and the concepts are just way out there. I don't know what Zelazny was taking when he ...

By Zubon The Courts of Chaos by Roger Zelazny · The Hand of Oberon by Roger Zelazny · Sign of the Unicorn by Roger Zelazny · The Guns of Avalon by Roger Zelazny · Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny · Hardball by Chris Matthews ...

By Zubon(noreply@blogger.com) The Amber Chronicles, book 6 Merlin son of Corwin, child of Amber and Chaos, takes over as our hero. It is April 30, and someone tries to kill him every April 30. This year's murder attempt turns up a host of people with connections to Amber, none of whom will tell him what is going on.

By Zubon(noreply@blogger.com) As an ending, this is fairly disappointing. The Hand of Oberon was a much better book. Each of the five books in the original Amber Chronicles is a different sort of beast, so maybe this is the sort you are looking for, but I do not see how you would have gotten this far in the series if this is the bo...

By Zubon(noreply@blogger.com) The good is that it has a worthy story. The second and third books were light on plot, but The Hand of Oberon is as strong as Nine Princes in Amber on that front. Battles, betrayal, revelation, mystery, and a worthy villain. It is as if this were the real Amber story, of which the previous books wer...

 NY - Nov 10, 2008 With echoes of Roger Zelazny’s Amber, Tolkien’s epic adventure, Andre Norton’s wild hunt and Horn Crowned Lord of her Witch World series and the Arthurian ...

By Gary Corby Lord of Light – Roger Zelazny. The best of his work. If you like this, read the first series of Amber stories too, starting with Nine Princes In Amber. Starship Troopers – Robert Heinlein. Some might not appreciate his point of view, ...

By Mad Baker The Amber books by Roger Zelazny - The first set, one through five (Nine Princes in Amber to The Courts of Chaos), are excellent. Don't even bother reading the second five (The Trumps of Doom to The Prince of Chaos). ...

By Zubon Amber is the one true city, at the heart of the one true world of which our Earth is but a multi-dimensional shadow. The king is gone, and the princes vie for his throne. Prince Corwin has been out of the game for a long time, ...

By Greg McElhatton Also on my radar (but for 2009) is NESFA Press’s planned six-volume set of anthologies collecting every single Roger Zelazny short story. I cut my teeth on Zelazny’s Amber novels, and from there went to his anthologies (I still vividly ...

Also on my radar (but for 2009) is NESFA Press’s planned six-volume set of anthologies collecting every single Roger Zelazny short story. I cut my teeth on Zelazny’s Amber novels, and from there went to his anthologies (I still vividly ...

By Number 6 Finished: Nine Princes in Amber, by Roger Zelazny (reread) Started: The Guns of Avalon, by Roger Zelazny (reread) I'm low on new books, so I figured I'd reread at least a few books of the Amber series. (Slight summary of the 'verse ...

By Zoy Clem Roger Zelazny was one of the most creative science fiction and fantasy writers that arose from the 1960's. His Amber books achieved a cult following that still thrives today. Here is a fan video dedicated to Corwin, ...

By Chuck, The Pizza Snob It is, as you guessed, all ten books of the Amber series (Nine Princes in Amber, The Guns of Avalon, Sign of the Unicorn, The Hand of Oberon, The Courts of Chaos, Trumps of Doom, Blood of Amber, Sign of Chaos, Knight of Shadows, ...

By Rick Klaw klutzrick@gmail.com Zelazny is the hugely popular author of the "Amber" series of fantasy novels and classics such as Lord of Light, Damnation Alley, and My Name Is Legion * Zelazny won 6 Hugo Awards and 3 Nebula Awards, and was nominated a record 14 times ...

By Robert Greenberger Similarly, a previously unpublished Roger Zelazny mystery, Dead Man’s Brother, will finally see the light of day in February, the first new Zelazny novel in 15 years. Found more than 30 years after it was written, it’s the only new book ...

By Ed Gorman It was The Chronicles of Amber, a pure adventure series, that made him famous. A fair share of reviewers considered this too commercial an approach but even here the rapier cunning of his style makes the occasional thud and blunder ...

 CA - Oct 3, 2008 “I’ma very big fan of Roger Zelazny’s work, and I’ve read all the Amber Chronicles,” says singer/songwriter Eben Brooks, who just finished shooting an ...

By noreply@blogger.com (Piaw Na) md said... There's nothing as fulfilling as reading old Roger Zelazny, and Lord of Light is still one of the best science fiction novels written out there. I'm in total agreement! My favorite by Zelazny is Doorways in the Sand. ...

By Zubon Rating - 2: not worth reading (skip it) Oh well, we all have lesser works. Abandoned 20% of the way through. This is a light-hearted comedy in which a demon sets out to subvert the destiny of Earth for a millennium by subverting a fairy ...

The Chronicles of Amber (Volume 1) by Roger Zelazny Hardback Doubleday. Book Club Edition. (1972) 338 pages This is the first of a two volume set containing that part of Zelazny's Amber series which deals with Corwin, one of the princes ...

By Olle Linge And Call me Conrad, as it was originally named) is the ninth novel I read by Roger Zelazny. None of these books have been bad; some have been truly astonishing (Lord of Light comes to mind). In his novels, Zelazny frequently makes use ...

By Zephyranthes Dune by Frank Herbert; The Cornelius Chronicles by Michael Moorcock; The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin; The Last Defender of Camelot by Roger Zelazny; The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe; Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny ...

By David J. Montgomery The most egregious example of this type of literary grave robbing in recent years was the offense done to the works of Roger Zelazny. One of the finest fantasy writers ever, Zelazny created the beloved Amber series, a ten-book magnum ...

What really makes Nine Princes in Amber truly memorable, however, is not it's position in Zelazny's bibliography, nor in the fantasy canon, nor even the innovation that Zelazny injected into a tired genre. As ever, it's his language: ...

By Robert B. Marks The author that everybody keeps recommending to me: Roger Zelazny. Every time I mention fantasy literature, and I give a list of some of my favorite authors, at least three people write in to remind me of Zelazny and his Amber ...

By winterwren on a bench in the lobby.

By AlanDP Roger Zelazny (1937-1995) "I took out the pipe with which I was sometimes wont to amuse myself..." Roger Zelazny was born in Euclid, Ohio. He attended college at Western Reserve University, from which he graduated with a BA in English ...

By bestep In this first installment, Corwin begins to learn he’sa prince of Amber. And the earth he has been exiled is but a shadow of the true world. We learn there are many shadows, and those born of royal blood are able to move among the ...

By Adam Whitehead Roger Zelazny has the reputation of being one of the most interesting and innovative speculative fiction writers of his generation. His Amber novels are regarded as classics of fantasy and Damnation Alley is highly regarded to this day. ...

By chance I had the opportunity to read Roger Zelazny's book "This Immortal". I was hooked immediately. The story of an immortal in a future earth caught my imagination and interest when I was a young teenager. ...

By Amras Elensar Only men of the royal blood of Amber have the ability to bend shadows to their will, and since Corwin is a prince of Amber, he’s got the ability to do so. First though, he’s got to get back to Amber to walk the Pattern. ...

By mervih After they win the battle, Corey and Random try to make their way to Amber. Corey drives and Random does something to chance their scenery to weirder and weirder versions of Earth. Corey remembers bits and pieces but now much. ...

By mervih Roger Zelazny: Lord of Light. Posted by mervih under Roger Zelazny, books, fantasy, science fiction. I don’t quite know whether to classify this one as fantasy or science fiction and probably it doesn’t even matter. ...

By limyaael@gmail.com 4) A change of worlds. A book that blends science fiction and fantasy is often post-apocalyptic (although sometimes the apocalypse gets shoved to the back of things and the series is mostly fantasy or science fiction on the surface, as in Terry Brooks’s Shannara world). It can also be a cros...

By matt Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light. This is a classic that had been sitting on my shelf for years. It’s a great story — aristocrats of the future use advanced technology to rule a distant human colony as the gods of the Hindu pantheon — and ...

By Kailana Corwin, a Prince of Amber, is the main character. He has been exiled on Earth, and has no memory of who he is and where he came from. The nine brothers are fighting for the throne of Amber, and it is these brothers that Corwin has to ...

By Neil Locus Awards Winners Best Science Fiction Novel Best Fantasy Novel Best First Novel Best Novella Missile Gap", Charles Stross (One Million A.D.) Best Novelette The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Tor Best Anthology John Picacio Best Non-Fiction

By lordwarwizard One of the best fantasy series ever written. A must-read for anyone who enjoys the fantasy genre.

By webmaster@oreillynet.com (chromatic) A black bird of my desire came and sat on my left shoulder, and I wrote a note and tied it to its leg and sent it off into the west. It said, “Eric–I’ll be back,” and it was signed: “Corwin, Lord of Amber.” A demon wind propelled me east of the sun. —Nine Princes in Amber, Roger Zelazny.

All they needed now was a film — and Chambers had the perfect script. Months before, he had received a call from a would-be producer named Barry Geller. Geller had purchased the rights to Roger Zelazny’s science fiction novel, Lord of Light, written his own treatment, raised a few million do...

By Zubon Lord of Light displays a 1960s fascination with Eastern mysticism, along with the surface familiarity that often accompanies it. (Zelazny might have really known more, but it does not come into play here.) You would think that I would ...