The First New Roger Zelazny Novel in 15 Years

Nick Brown [ Thu Apr 15 2010 4:01 PM ]

Purely by accident, in the Mystery Section of a local bookstore (and I'm not a big mystery fan, but a loud weird-out-nerd-out conversation in the Science Fiction section forced me over a couple of aisles. Guys, keep it down, there are girls in here), I noticed a spine with " Zelazny" on it. Turns out it was a manuscript discovered posthumously in Zelazny's piles, lost for 30 years. That's from around the time of My Name is Legion but it's not science fiction; it's a spy/crime/adventure novel, and that's fine with me. I've said it before: nobody writes a classier fight scene than Zelazny, and few manage to propel a story with mystery as well as he did. Anyway, I haven't read it yet because I'm bogged down in Jungle Tales of Tarzan (haha) but at least I have something to look forward to besides drinking and getting made fun of for reading books with monsters on the cover.

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I am almost done with [ Mon Apr 19 2010 3:59 PM ]

Game of Thrones -George R. R. Martin
I usually have to fold the cover up so no one will see it.
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The cover on my copy of GOT was quite dignified, [ Mon Apr 19 2010 4:13 PM ]

but the cover on my Clash of Kings is NerdStorm.
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If there is a sci fi aspect to the book, [ Mon May 10 2010 9:58 PM ]

and I maintain that there is, it's the notion that while some people are accident prone, others (like the protagonist) are opposite. Zelazny works a subtle play on that superpower, but it's clearly a theme and an engine for the plot. It's definitely a welcome addition to his canon with a nice afterward from his son.
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My scifi-fantasy musketeers! [ Sat May 15 2010 12:57 AM ]

Roger Zelazny, Fred Saberhagen, Poul Anderson, Walter Jon Williams, S. M. Stirling...
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