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Roger Zelazny


Born
in Euclid, Ohio, The United States
May 13, 1937

Died
June 14, 1995

Genre
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Poetry


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. Zelazny continued to write excellent short stories throughout his career. 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.

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 ...more

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Average rating: 4.05 · 450,914 ratings · 18,881 reviews · 688 distinct works • Similar authors
Nine Princes in Amber (The ...
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Lord of Light
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The Guns of Avalon (The Chr...
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Sign of the Unicorn (The Ch...
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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
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Trumps of Doom Blood of Amber Sign of Chaos Knight of Shadows Prince of Chaos
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Bring Me the Head of Prince... If at Faust You Don't Succeed A Farce to Be Reckoned With
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“I know, too, that death is the only god who comes when you call.”
― Roger Zelazny, Frost & Fire
tags: death, gods, mythology, suicide
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“I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better when I can see that there is something to hold back the shadows.”
― Roger Zelazny, Nine Princes in Amber
tags: books, libraries, libraries-shadows, security, words
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“Nobody steals books but your friends.”
― Roger Zelazny, The Guns of Avalon
tags: books, friendship, inspirational, irony, stealing
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