Roger Zelazny

Nine Princes in Amber (eBook, ePUB)

The Chronicles of Amber Book One

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

After what seemed most of an eternity he woke up in a hospital not knowing who he was or how he got there. He was absolutely certain, however, that his life depended on getting out of that hospital and finding out who he was. And so starts an epic adventure in one of science fiction and fantasy's most revered series, The Chronicles of Amber. Amber is the one true world of which all others are but shadows reflecting it down through the multi-verse. The royal family of Amber, almost god like beings, have powers over shadow and may move freely through shadow. But despite all the power at their command the shadows can become dangerous even for them.
Roger Zelazny was a science fiction and fantasy writer, a six time Hugo Award winner, and a three time Nebula Award Winner. He published more than forty novels in his lifetime. His first novel This Immortal, serialized in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction under the title "...And Call Me Conrad," won the Hugo Award for best novel. Lord of Light, his third novel, also won the Hugo award and was nominated for the Nebula award. He died at age 58 from colon cancer. Zelazny was posthumously inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2010.

"A storyteller without peer. He created worlds as colorful and exotic and memorable as any our genre has ever seen." -George R.R. Martin
". . . his performance was never anything other than dazzling." -Robert Silverberg
"Roger Zelazny's work excited me. It was intoxicating and delightful and unique. And it was smart." -Neil Gaiman

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wilder Publications, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 500
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781515446668
• Artikelnr.: 59808043

Autorenporträt

Roger Zelazny burst onto the SF scene in the early 1960s with a series of dazzling and groundbreaking short stories. He is the winner of six Hugo Awards, including for the novels This Immortal and the classic Lord of Light; he is also the author of the enormously popular Amber  series, starting with Nine Princes in Amber. In addition to his Hugos, he went on to win three Nebula Awards over the course of a long and distinguished career. He died on June 14, 1995.

Rezensionen

"Teems with excitement. . . . A swashbuckling tale of parallel worlds." - Psychology Today
"A dazzling blend of myth science fiction and (super) human nature." - Kirkus Reviews
"A rousing good tale." - Village Voice
"Lord of Light is funny, wise, and infused with a sense of wonder and knowledge. It tells of people who become gods but still remain, for all that, people. It is tricky and brilliant and heartfelt and dangerous. It's the kind of book that makes you want to be a writer. Nobody else made myths real and valuable in the way Roger Zelazny could. I'm delighted that Lord of Light is being reissued in trade paperback for a new generation." - Neil Gaiman
"The greatest example of Zelazny's genius . . . the characters are intriguing, the events cosmic and dazzling . . . a masterpiece." - Salisbury (N.C.) Post
"Roger Zelazny was one of SF's finest storytellers, a poet with an immense and instinctive gift for language. Reading Zelazny is like dropping into a Mozartstring quartet as played by Thelonius Monk." - New York Times Bestselling author Greg Bear
"Roger Zelazny is not comfortable with rigid categories. He writes about science as if it were magic and magic as if it were science. His characters are conversant with Chaucer and Nietzsche and thermodynamics and Hart Crane and molecular biology." - New York Times Book Review
"For those who read and enjoyed the series, but who may have lent or misplaced a book or two, this is a welcome addition. For those who never read the series in the first place, it is a delightful treat." - The Oregonian (Portland)