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@mms
Couple thoughts: 1. He's from a different era when books did their thing then stopped.In general, in the 80s books got above 200 pages, and now books are just silly long
So I think the pacing you've seen is typical for him
2. He liked writing by thinking of a situation, a secret fact about a character that he would never reveal, then going from there, building the story in a "pants-er" way
So maybe you don't click
I would suggest trying "A Night in the Lonesome October", the best of his late books, if you want you try one more time
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ok, please send help. Roger Zelazny. Are we incompatible?
I've read Amber Chronicles and am finishing Devlisih today.
On one side I love his ideas. On ideas presented alone, all those are amazing.
But he doesn't develop any of those. Cool things happen, but why? There is a back story, but all Roger does is to give a single sentence (if he's in the mood). Characters are great, but miss one random sentence and whole aspect is lost.
As it stands, all those books are much to fast for me. Just one action piece after another.
Are those books like this or is all of Zelaznys works like this?
-- TIL ---
Devlisih is a collection of short stories masquerade as a novel. This explains so freaking much.
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Oooooh!!! Remember, tomorrow you can start 1 chapter per day of "A night in the Lonesome October", by Zelazny. Each day in the life of guard dog Snuff, through each day of Oct. While unbalanced (1 chapter is a sentence, I think, and another quite long), it is still fun to do).
https://bookwyrm.social/book/38827/s/a-night-in-the-lonesome-october
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Sam (Mahasamatman) was a wandering monk who often said, "Thank you Lord, or not, whatever, I'm sorry if implying you exist offends you"
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Screenplay by Kilgore Trout
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"... this John Betancourt fellow who has purchased the rights to write Amber novels, and that he plans on releasing a prequel trilogy set in the Amber universe, and I wanted to know if you, as a friend and fan of Mr. Zelazny, have any thoughts on the matter you'd be willing to share.
Well, I remember Roger talking to me and Steve Brust. We'd just suggested that if he did an anthology of other-people-write-Amber-stories that we'd be up for it (understatement), and he puffed on his pipe, and said -- extremely firmly -- that he didn't want anyone else to write Amber stories but him."
Ah. I had been wondering. Trying to be polite here, but Roger is dead now. Sorry to hear about that ...
If you can shadow-walk from Amber to the Courts of Chaos then you probably already made the movie and we would like to see it too please
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Suddenly realizing the stark parallels between #BrandonSanderson’s #Cosmere setting and the central conceit of #Zelazny’s novel, Lord of Light.
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Vale Trent Zelazny, son of Roger - https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/2024/12/07/r-i-p-trent/
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Today on our podcast Re-Creative Mark A. Rayner and I talk to author Peter Darbyshire, who joined us to champion the classic Roger Zelazny fantasy series The Chronicles of Amber. I've loved Zelazny's fiction from the moment I first encountered the Amber series, and Mark's a fan as well, so Peter was in good company.
#zelazny #writing #chroniclesofamber #novels #sciencefiction #fantasy #novel #rogerzelazny #writingtips
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Today on our podcast Re-Creative Mark A. Rayner and I talk to author Peter Darbyshire, who joined us to champion the classic Roger Zelazny fantasy series The Chronicles of Amber. I've loved Zelazny's fiction from the moment I first encountered the Amber series, and Mark's a fan as well, so Peter was in good company.
#zelazny #writing #chroniclesofamber #novels #sciencefiction #fantasy #novel #rogerzelazny #writingtips
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Today on our podcast Re-Creative Mark A. Rayner and I talk to author Peter Darbyshire, who joined us to champion the classic Roger Zelazny fantasy series The Chronicles of Amber. I've loved Zelazny's fiction from the moment I first encountered the Amber series, and Mark's a fan as well, so Peter was in good company.
#zelazny #writing #chroniclesofamber #novels #sciencefiction #fantasy #novel #rogerzelazny #writingtips
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Today on our podcast Re-Creative Mark A. Rayner and I talk to author Peter Darbyshire, who joined us to champion the classic Roger Zelazny fantasy series The Chronicles of Amber. I've loved Zelazny's fiction from the moment I first encountered the Amber series, and Mark's a fan as well, so Peter was in good company.
#zelazny #writing #chroniclesofamber #novels #sciencefiction #fantasy #novel #rogerzelazny #writingtips
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Today on our podcast Re-Creative Mark A. Rayner and I talk to author Peter Darbyshire, who joined us to champion the classic Roger Zelazny fantasy series The Chronicles of Amber. I've loved Zelazny's fiction from the moment I first encountered the Amber series, and Mark's a fan as well, so Peter was in good company.
#zelazny #writing #chroniclesofamber #novels #sciencefiction #fantasy #novel #rogerzelazny #writingtips
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ACK, i almost forgot! It is still October 1st, which means i must remind everyone that it is time to start reading Roger Zelazny's "A Night In The Lonesome October" to celebrate the Halloween season! Such a delightful book, and each chapter is a day in October, so only one chapter per day -- No reading ahead!! #Zelazny #Spooky #Halloween
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https://www.minenest.com/276221/ 🤯 10 ROZWALONYCH SEEDÓW 🤯 w MINECRAFT… #10LosowychOsóbBuduje #10NajgłupszychModów #DziwneSeedyWMinecraft #gra #GraDlaDzieci #GraKomputerowa #gry #GryDlaDzieci #GryKomputerowe #Minecraft #MinecraftNajdziwniejszeSeedy #MinecraftSeedy #MinecraftVideos #NajdziwniejszeSeedyWMinecraft #NajgłupszeSeedyWMinecraft #SeedyDoMinecraft #zabawki #ZakazaneSeedyWMinecraft #żelazny #żelaznyMinecraft #żelaznySeedy
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https://www.minenest.com/274638/ 🤯 10 NIESAMOWITYCH BUILD HACKÓW w MINECRAFT! 🤯 #BudowanieWMinecraft #BuildHacki #buildhacki #buildhaki #gra #GraDlaDzieci #GraKomputerowa #gry #GryDlaDzieci #GryKomputerowe #Minecraft #MinecraftBudowanie #MinecraftBuildhacki #MinecraftHacki #MinecraftVideos #zabawki #żelazny #żelaznyMinecraft
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Award-winning Canadian SFF writer Douglas Smith shares how a Swiss painting has inspired his work on this episode of Re-Creative. Delve into Doug's acclaimed works and the creative process behind them. Oh, and we also talk about our mutual admiration for writer Roger Zelazny. #books #podcast #zelazny #publishing #art #arnoldbocklin
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Paul Weimer judiciously reviews the e-version of THRESHOLD, vol. 1 of NESFA's monumental collection of Zelazny's short sf. (link in comments because Facebook is Facebook)
https://file770.com/paul-weimer-review-roger-zelaznys-threshold/
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The Road to Amber, by Roger Zelazny; and the story behind “Manna from Heaven”
It's a thoroughly satisfactory capstone to the five volumes that went before.
https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/the-road-to-amber-by-roger-zelazny/
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Nine Black Doves – Volume 5: The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny
Huge Zelazny fan that I am, I must record that I had read all of the stories before. But! the Hugo-winning "24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai" is in fact illustrated by the relevant woodcuts.
https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/nine-black-doves-volume-5-the-collected-stories-of-roger-zelazny/
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Just completed my 2023 #Goodreads #reading challenge, with my 50th #book of the year. And what a magnificent book to reach my goal with. My annual reread treat, A Night in the Lonesome October by #RogerZelazny. https://vivdunstan.dreamwidth.org/442428.html #books #bookstodon #Zelazny #Horror #Fantasy #GothicHorror #NeilGaiman #Spooky #Supernatural #Halloween
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It's October 1st, so here is my annual reminder that it's time to start reading Roger Zelazny's "A Night In The Lonesome October" -- remember, each chapter is a day, so only read one chapter per day until the finale on the 31st! #Zelazny #Reading #October #Fantasy #Spooky #Humor
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62005.A_Night_in_the_Lonesome_October
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Am doing my periodic re-read of Amber (Zelazny and Pratchett are literally the only authors I ever re-read), and realized that Amber is to me what LotR is to a good chunk of other SF/F fans.
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Latest read, Tower of Ice (1981) by Roger Zelazny, from Flashing Swords 5; Dilvish the Damned, demonic hero in half-elven form, and his talking demon steed Black, seek the evil wizard Jelerak in the Tower of Ice.
Zelazny once said he didn't like his Dilvish stories-- but sometimes writers want to prove themselves, have literary aspirations, and forget that pure entertainment is a gift to readers as well.
100% fun
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CW: Old sci-fi book review: Damnation alley
"Damnation Alley" by Roger Zelazny is a post-apocalyptic book.
The plot is simple enough - a few decades after nuclear WW III, a criminal motorcycle gang member from LA, named Hell Tanner, is offered full pardon for his crimes if he is willing to deliver essential medicine to plagued Boston via "Damnation Alley": the least dangerous route.#my_old_scifi_books #ScienceFiction #NuclearHolocoust #Zelazny
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@Dr_Bombay Much joy! I just stumbled across ‘The further Chronicles of Amber’ aka ‘The Merlin Cycle’ which (revealing my Vintage) were not yet published last time I read these. Oh, the anticipation!
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I started re-reading the ‘Chronicles of Amber’ by Roger Zelazny a while back, prompted by a post by @Dr_Bombay (many thanks for the prompt, Dr B, I struggled to find it again).
After at least 35 years, I had forgotten how good they are. A completely unique #fantasy novel series. Very fast-paced, and yet poetic at times, steering a writing style somewhere between Raymond Chandler and Lord Byron. I’d highly commend giving them a look https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Amber
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I try to fight my internal hype machine when I hear about my favorite books being adapted to the screen. But: this seems like incredibly good news.
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I love colorful #dice as much as anyone, and I usually try to find interesting #GameMechanics to utilize them. But I do enjoy #AmberDiceless role-playing , by #Wujcik , based on #Zelazny and the #ChroniclesOfAmber , and am considering a #Foundry game once a month or so.
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Bon, ça fait longtemps que je n'ai pas fait un #VendrediLecture ! Pour cause : je me suis relu l'intégrale des deux cycles des Princes d'Ambre, de #Zelazny, en VO, nouvelles comprises. Et entretemps, Mechwarrior 5 est sorti, et je suis tombé dans le terrier du lapin blanc. Il a fallu la sortie de la série #TheWitcher pour m'arracher à l'ordi, et comme je suis faible, j'ai repris la lecture des romans de #Sapkowski, que j'avais abandonné au tome 3. Bon, c'est efficace, il faut le reconnaître !
