Khun Library of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). He won the Nebula award three times (out of 14 nominations) and the Hugo award six times (out of 14 nominations). Zelazny never entirely fulfilled his early promise-who could?-but he and his work were much loved, and a potent influence on such younger writers as George R. The fantasy sequence The Amber Chronicles, which started with Nine Princes in Amber, deals with the ruling family of a Platonic realm at the metaphysical heart of things, who can slide, trickster-like through realities, and their wars with each other and the related ruling house of Chaos. Most of his novels deal, one way or another, with tricksters and mythology, often with rogues who become gods, like Sam in Lord of Light, who reinvents Buddhism as a vehicle for political subversion on a colony planet. Zelazny continued to write excellent short stories throughout his career. Conjectures and illusions are often the better possessions.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.

Usually they are grubby little things, reducing down to the basest of motives when all is known. But look at it this way: inside stories seldom live up to one’s expectations. “My own role sometimes makes me want to strangle the author. It is as if I were one of those minor characters in a melodrama who gets shuffled offstage without ever learning how things turn out.” I’ve a peculiar feeling that I may never see you again. Random aside, the book went rather amusingly meta at one point: Still worth finishing, but I'm starting to long for more. I want to know more about what's going on with that Black Road. We're learning a lot more about the world(s), but mostly only answering questions from the previous two books. On the other hand, not that much actually happens. It's the first time we've really seen all (or at least most) of them all in one place at the same time, which leads to a much different sort of book. It turns out that Corwin and his brothers and sisters really are a bunch of conniving bastards (in some cases literally). On one hand, we end up getting a much stronger sense for exactly who in Amber's ruling family is working with whom and what all they've done thus far. In, Corwin escapes off the Avalon in order to use jewelers' supplies to make guns to take back the throne from Eric-only to end up having to save Amber rather than attack it. In, Corwin went from having no memories to learning he was a Prince of Amber, to trying to wrest the throne from his brother Eric-only to be blinded and thrown into prison.

Sign of the Unicorn by Roger Zelazny