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

...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 it in...

In this article: Jack of Shadows, Jack Vance, Underwood-Miller, Hugo Award, Pocket Books, PXR5, and Mayfair Games

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

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

...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

...great comics creator Brian Wood listens to indie rock (and is really good about publishing his set lists.) Both Harlan Ellison and Roger Zelazny told me they listen to jazz while they write. When I asked Harlan Ellison the music question, he...

In this article: Harlan Ellison, Les Paul, Graphic novel, Stephen King, Django Reinhardt, and New York City

...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

...recommendation right out of the gate: "Watch Steven Brust. He's good. He moves fast. He surprises you." -Roger Zelazny I liked the sound of that, and Roger was right-Brust was all of those things, in spades. Brust has a unique way of...

In this article: Steven Brust, Vlad Taltos, Red Harvest, Jhereg, The Phoenix Guards, Five Hundred Years After, and Jhegaala

...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