Roger Zelazny

...the title This Immortal, 1966) and then the novel Lord of Light (1967). The ostracod Sclerocypris zelaznyi was named after him. Roger Zelazny was born in Euclid, Ohio, the only child of Polish immigrant Joseph Frank Zelazny and...

In this article: Roger Joseph Zelazny, Hugo Award, Jane Lindskold, Nebula Award, The Chronicles of Amber, Chronomaster, and Oberon

...familiar 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...

In this article: Otto Penzler, The Vampyre, John Polidori, Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Kim Newman, The Hound, Popsy, Ligeia, and Hallucination

...discovered 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...

In this article: Philip K. Dick, Deus Irae, God, Doubleday, Christianity, and Fallout

My Name Is Legion (ISBN 0345248678) is an anthology of three stories by Roger Zelazny, compiled in 1976 . The stories feature a common protagonist who is never named. The protagonist of these stories was involved in the creation of a...

In this article: Hugo Award, Tall Man, Unicorn Variations, Phantasm, and Bahamas

Damnation Alley is the title of a 1967 science fiction short story by Roger Zelazny, which he expanded into a novel in 1969. A film adaptation of the novel was released in 1977. Both the short story and the novel open in a...

In this article: Damnation Alley, Judge Dredd, Walter Jon Williams, Suicide, 2000 AD, Hardwired, Lukas Heller, Jack Smight, and Quark, Strangeness and Charm

...first issue was tossed into a long box and forgotten. Cut to many months later, and I decided that if anyone can effectively pull off a Roger Zelazny story, It's Neil Gaiman. I put some thought into this book before I bought it, and...

In this article: Neil Gaiman, Jack Kirby, Graphic novel, Celestials, Amnesia, DVD, and Chickenfoot

...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...

In this article: The Call of the Wild, Nine Princes in Amber, Jack London, Louis Sachar, Cat's Cradle, Holes, and Orson Scott Card

...science fiction and fantasy, ranging from the novels of the best-selling science fiction writer Isaac Asimov to works by fantasy writer Roger Zelazny and British horror fiction author Brian Lumley. But one name dominates the collection -...

In this article: Dean Koontz, God, Psychosis, Brian Lumley, Forever Odd, Joyce Carol Oates, and Velocity

...album, Speech Therapy, was last week included on the shortlist for this year's Mercury prize. Coined by the American sci-fi writer Roger Zelazny, it means "to explode with great force". She is certainly doing that. One week before the...

In this article: Choice FM, London, God, Mercury Prize, Better Days, Always, and Heroin

...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...

In this article: Lord of Light, Ted Gioia, Dog, Philosophy, Hinduism, Buddhist, and God