See much stuff being written at that time which fit that description īecause I wanted to see whether I could do it and because I wasĬurious as to how such a book would be received."Īs to whether the book was an overt homage to Eastern religion, the answer is a resounding "Yes". Intentional ambiguity, because I wanted it to lie somewhat betweenīoth camps and not entirely in either. I wrote it that way on purpose, leaving some To provide some justifications for what went on in the way of theīizarre on the other, I employed a style I associate with fantasy in Khun Library of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)."Lord of Light was intentionally written so that it could be takenĪs a science fiction or a fantasy novel. 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.
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