Roger Zelazny

...the tunnels. It's a handsome game on PC - though a little less so on Xbox 360. Glukhovsky cites traditional sci-fi authors such as Roger Zelazny and Ray Bradbury as influences, but tellingly admits that the original Fallout was an...

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...Zelazny had sent photocopies of some pages and demanded the originals as per Doubleday's policy; much to Zelazny's chagrin, he had to send in the urine-stained pages and he always wondered what the Editor made of them. After 1982, the...

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...a prologue which details Merlin's passage through the Logrus. After completing the Merlin Cycle, Zelazny wrote six Amber short stories, in which he began to tease the threads of the story into a new configuration. The author died shortly...

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...I read fantasy voraciously... Piers Anthony, David Eddings, Terry Brooks, Katherine Kurtz, Raymond Feist, Robert Lynn Aspirin, Roger Zelazny, Stephen Brust, Christopher Stasheff, Stephen R. Donaldson and many many more lined my shelves.

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...the studio had Alan Sharp write a completely different version that left out most of the elements of Zelazny's book. Zelazny didn't realize this until he saw the movie in the theater. He hated the movie, but assertions that he requested to...

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...names for genre fans are Charles Beaumont, Ambrose Bierce, Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, Tanith Lee, Richard Matheson, Anne Rice, and Roger Zelazny. This writer is a member of The Masked Movie Snobs, a collective that fights a never-ending...

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According to him, the name of the book (but not the titular character) was a homage to Jack Vance. In his introduction to the novel he mentioned that he tried to capture some of the exotic landscapes so frequent in Vance's work. Zelazny wrote...

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...first paperback publication by Ace Books and the title was changed by the publisher to This Immortal. Zelazny stated in interviews that he preferred the original eponymous title. The abridged version was novel length at over 47,000 words; the...

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...fiction stories of my own American youth: The Call of the Wild by Jack London, Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny. When I was writing Shadowmagic, my own fantasy adventure novel, I read my day's...

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...in academic work on how nations deal with each other. Given recent history, this would seem to be a serious oversight, huh? Yet readers of Roger Zelazny's Lord of Light would never make that mistake. They would know that every good fight...

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