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Roger Zelazny

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Born: May 12 1937

Died: 1313 06 19951995

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 heart of things, who can slide, trickster-like through realities, and their wars with each other and the related ruling house of Chaos. 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. R. Martin and Neil Gaiman.

He won the Nebula award three times and the Hugo award six times . His papers are housed at the Albin O. Khun Library of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County .

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Roger Zelazny

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Books from Roger Zelazny

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Nine Princes in Amber

Lord of Light

The Great Book of Amber

The Guns of Avalon

The Hand of Oberon

Sign of the Unicorn

Trumps of Doom

Blood of Amber

The Chronicles of Amber

This Immortal

Prince of Chaos

Roger Zelazny's The Dawn of Amber

Doorways in the Sand

The Chronicles of Amber: Volume I

Roadmarks

Chicks in Chainmail

Isle of the Dead

Black Thorn, White Rose

The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, Volume 1: Beyond Lies the Wub