Roadmarks by Roger Zelazny

Roadmarks by Roger Zelazny

Roger Zelazny likes heroes who don’t know who they are. The most famous is Corwin of Amber, but he also uses this idea in Creatures of Light and Darkness and again here in Roadmarks. The idea behind the Roadmarks world is that branch universes are created at every decisive (and possibly all the other) moments of history and that these branch universes were connected by some powerful race in the past so that there appears to be a road network connecting them. Certain people can travel these roads and the travelers come from the whole range of history and cultures. One of the travelers (our hero who doesn’t know who he is) has another traveler acting out on a vendetta against him by hiring a large number of assassins to track him down through time and kill him. To make matters a bit more complicated, the storyline advances in two timelines. It’s a fast-moving, fun story, but not one of Zelazny’s best.