

I'm not entirely convinced he's the "good guy." It's sort of like voting for Zeus instead of Hera. Well, one issue I have is that I'm not sure why I should side with Corwin. All of these princes want to be the king of Amber, and they struggle against each other for the throne. But there's really only ONE REAL WORLD, the world of Amber, of which all the other worlds are shadows. Nine princes who can travel at will between these Shadow Realms.

SHADOW REALMS, one for every combination of things that could be.

Protagonist Corwin regains his memory gradually, creating a sense of mystery throughout the first hundred pages that is quite entertaining. The protagonist's case of amnesia makes it so he must learn all the same things the reader needs to know. Lets start with the good: I enjoyed your method of immersing the reader in your fantasy world. No, it would be no problem at all! I'd be happy to respond to the first draft of your new fantasy novel. 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. 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.
