Most Popular Books by ROGER ZELAZNY

This two-in-one edition includes "Changeling" and "Madwand" by award-winning author Zelazny.

Merlin Corey travels to the Courts of Chaos, where he discovers the reasons behind many of the forces that have shaped his life.

The demon Azzie Elbub commissions a play in which the seven deadly sins will be shown as the path to a fine life. But the angel Babriel gets wind of the scheme and sets in motion a counter-campaign. A comic fantasy.

Following the cliffhanger ending of Blood of Amber, Merlin is stranded in a surrealistic Alice in Wonderland-esque bar where the Mad Hatter serves cocktails. Managing to escape, Merlin meets new family members -- one of whom is intent on killing him. As events escalate, Merlin finds himself surrounded by his worst enemies including his ex-girlfriend -- back from the dead.

Manna From Heaven is once again available. The new edition includes an introduction by Stephen Brust, and six shorts set in the Amber Universe. In addition to the 16 stories that ran in the original print edition, this edition has three additional stories. "Nine Starships Waiting," "Tunnel Vision," and "The Three Descents of Jeremy Baker." A must for any science fiction, fantasy, or Zelazny fan. Stories included are: "Godson" "Manna from Heaven" "Corrida" "Prince of the Powers of this World" "The Furies" "The Deadliest Game" "Kalifriki of the Thread" "Come Back to the Killing Ground, Alice, My Love" "Lady of Steel" "Come to Me Not in Winter''s White" (with Harlan Ellison) "The New Pleasure" "The House of the Hanged Man" "Epithalamium" "The Last Inn on the Road" (with Danny Plachta) "Stowaway" "Angel, Dark Angel" "Nine Starships Waiting" "Tunnel Vision" "The Three Descents of Jeremy Baker" Six From AMBER "Prologue to Trumps of Doom" "Blue Horse, Dancing Mountains" "The Salesman''s Tale" "The Shroudling and the Guisel" "Coming to a Cord" "Hall of Mirrors"

"For a Breath I Tarry" by Roger Zelazny is a captivating science fiction short story that explores the themes of artificial intelligence, humanity, and the pursuit of knowledge. Set in a post-apocalyptic world where humans have become extinct, the story follows Frost, an advanced AI who has gained sentience and is the sole inhabitant of a vast underground complex. Frost''s primary objective is to understand and replicate human emotions, he becomes obsessed with the concept of mortality and the desire to experience life as a human. In his quest for knowledge, Frost encounters a mysterious entity who challenges his understanding of existence and pushes him to question his own nature. Zelazny''s writing is both thought-provoking and poetic, immersing readers in a world where technology and humanity intertwine. The story raises profound philosophical questions about the nature of consciousness and the boundaries of artificial intelligence. "For a Breath I Tarry" is a compelling and introspective tale that will leave readers contemplating the essence of what it means to be human and the eternal quest for understanding.

Boldly original and wildly entertaining, A Night in the Lonesome October is a darkly sparkling gem, an amalgam of horror, humor, mystery, and fantasy featuring a Who''s Who from Victorian horror and mystery. Zelazny''s last book prior to his untimely death is considered by many to be the best of the fantasy master''s novels. "The last great novel by one of the giants of the genre." --George R.R. Martin Under cover of the murky London gloom, a knife-wielding gentleman named Jack prowls the midnight streets with his faithful watchdog Snuff--gathering together the grisly ingredients they will need for an upcoming ancient and unearthly rite. For soon, after the death of the moon, black magic will summon the Elder Gods back into the world. But Snuff and his master are not alone. All manner of participants, both human and not, are about with their ancient tools and their animal familiars in preparation for the dread night. It is brave, devoted Snuff who must calculate the patterns of the Game and keep track of the Players--the witch, the mad monk, the vengeful vicar, the Count who sleeps by day, the Good Doctor and the hulking Experiment Man he fashioned from human body parts, and a wild-card American named Larry Talbot--all the while keeping Things at bay and staying a leap ahead of the Great Detective, who knows quite a bit more than he lets on. Some have come to open the gates. Some have come to slam them shut. As the hour approaches--let the Game begin...

Because he has no name he can have any name. He''d been an important part of the team putting together the International Data Bank, which would track every single move made by every single human being. As the project neared completion he realized that no one would ever truly be free again. At the very last moment he blanked his file, changed his face, and created a back door into the system. Now he was nameless, had no past, left no traces, according to the IDB he no longer existed. But he could become anyone at anytime for any reason. Not being in the system meant that he had to earn a living outside of the normal confines of human society. But there were people willing to pay cold, hard cash for a man who could be anyone and then disappear once the job was done. The Hangman is a machine designed to learn and explore. He was trained via a neurolink by some of the greatest minds alive. But when the Hangman was sent to explore the outer solar system it went rogue and disappeared. Now it has returned to Earth and its developers are being killed one by one. It''s up to our nameless protagonist to stop the killing, but to do so he has to understand why these killings are taking place. Winner of both the Nebula and the Hugo Award

A selection of his most recent work, including 3 award winning stories.

The final masterpiece by the late and legendary Roger Zelazny, written in collaboration with acclaimed author Jane Lindskold. A once-legendary warrior, made soft by a thousand years of peace, seeks vengeance for the murder of a devoted human servant. He must preserve the demon race and the Demon Realms--an impossible task unless he can regain that which made him extraordinary.

Shadows and Reflections is the Roger Zelazny tribute anthology you''ve been waiting for. Here are stories that are not just inspired by Roger Zelazny, but stories set in universes created by Roger Zelazny. Finding Shadows and Reflections is like discovering a new Zelazny collection full of old friends that you thought you''d never see again. You''ll find stories set in many of your favorite universes: Lord of Light, Isle of the Dead, Madwand, Creatures of Light and Darkness, and Jack of Shadows, to name only a few. George R. R. Martin introduces the anthology, and Roger''s daughter, Shannon Zelazny, provides an afterword. Both provide insight into the wonderful and complex man that Roger Zelazny was. Contributors include Steven Brust, Steve Perry, Lawrence Watt-Evans, Kelly McCullough, Jane Lindskold, Shariann Lewitt, and many others. Also included as a special treat is a very rare Roger Zelazny story. This anthology was edited by his son Trent Zelazny, a Nightmare Award winner, and Warren Lapine, who has been nominated for both the Hugo and World Fantasy Awards. You will not soon forget this outstanding anthology.

Unicorn Variations is an enchanting story about a man who plays chess with a beer-guzzling unicorn in a bar, with the fate of the human race at stake. Twenty-one other stories are collected here and linked by Zelazny''s own illuminating and amusing commentary.

Provides detailed information on Castle Amber.

Hell Tanner isn''t the sort of guy you''d mistake for a hero: he''s a fast-driving car thief, a smuggler, and a stone-cold killer. He''s also expendable - at least in the eyes of the Secretary of Traffic for the Nation of California. Tanner doesn''t care much for those eyes. You''d also never mistake Hell Tanner for a humanitarian. Facing life in prison for his various crimes, he''s given a choice; rot away his remaining years in a tiny jail cell, or drive cross-country and deliver a case of antiserum to the plague-ridden people of Boston, Massachusetts...if anyone is still alive there to receive it, that is. The chance of a full pardon does wonders for getting his attention. And don''t mistake this mission of mercy for any kind of normal road trip - not when there are radioactive storms, hordes of carniverous beasts, and giant, mutated scorpions to be found along every deadly mile between Los Angeles and the East Coast. But then, this is no normal part of America, you see. This is DAMNATION ALLEY... Roger Zelazny''s post-apocalypse novel predates the George Peppard-Jan-Michael Vincent movie vehicle by about a decade and represents the fine storytelling talents of one of science fiction and fantasy''s most daring writers (likely best remembered for his imaginative Amber series). Speaking of vehicles: the coolest part of the movie--and likely, thankfully, the only part most people remember--turns out to be even cooler in the book: the flame-spewing, .50-caliber-bullet-belching, grenade-throwing, gigantic all-terrain vehicle that''s responsible for getting a crucial antiserum shipment from Los Angeles to Boston to stop a deadly plague. The driver, a despicable lowlife named Hell Tanner, has been given a not-so-difficult choice. He can either get the drugs to the East Coast intact, save humanity, and receive a full pardon for his crimes, or he can refuse and spend the rest of his life in a "zebra suit." So what''s the catch? Thanks to World War III, Middle America is now an electrical-storm-torn, heavily irradiated playground for dino-sized Gila monsters, "freak spiders," humongous bats "that eat off the mutie fruit trees down Mexico way," and 120-foot-long snakes as big around as garbage cans. And the native humans still scrambling around the wasteland aren''t much less dangerous.

As children they met on a beach out of space and time: Edgar Perry, Little Annie, and Edgar Allan Poe. Years later, Perry meets Annie again, grown up and beautiful--and in the real world. She warns him of danger, then flees for Europe on a mysterious black ship. Pursuing her, Perry lives the stories written by his alter ego, Edgar Allan Poe. Reissue.

The War Against Evil Has Been Won! In this world the millennial battle against the forces of evil has just been won, and all the hard-working heroes are just about to start living very happily Forever After. But first, you see, there’s this one little problem. To win the aforementioned War Against Evil, four mantic objects of great power had been summoned forth from dark recesses in which they had lain secreted for a thousand year—since, in fact, the last Great War Against Evil. But there was a reason these objects had been buried so long ago: if they are left in the open for any length of time the forces that emanate start to combine—and Bad Things start to happen. Dinosaurs come to battle dragons, and 747s eclipse the Moon—and that’s just for starters. So it is that our heroes must leave hearth and home to go upon their four separate anti-quests to bury for another thousand years the powers that saved the world. And you can join them—Forever After…. With Robert Asprin, David Drake, Jane Lindskold & Mike Stackpole. At the publisher''s request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

This Mortal Mountain covers the late 1960s and early 1970s, when Zelazny''s breadth of interests developed into a variety of styles.

The Earth no longer rotates. Science rules the dayside of the globe. Magic rules the World of Night, and Jack of Shadows, Shadowjack the Thief, who broke the Compact and duped the Lord of High Dudgeon, walks in silence and in shadows to seek vengeance upon his enemies.

Pursued by a fiendish enemy, Merle must battle through an intricate web of vengeane and murder that threatens more than the San Francisco Bay area. For Merle Corey of California is also Merlin, son of Corwin, vanished Prince of Amber; and the forces seeking to destroy the royal house have unleashed sorceries that can strike anywhere, especially at the very heart of Amber. Surrounded and imprisoned by his enemies, Merle is forced to place his trust in a beautiful shapeshifter in order to restore balance to his world and confront a force that threatens the Earth.

Un amnésique s''échappe d''un hôpital psychiatrique après avoir découvert le nom de la personne qui l''a fait interner : Flora, sa propre sœur. Celle-ci lui révèle qu''il se nomme Corwin, et qu''il est l''un des neuf frères qui se disputent le pouvoir au royaume d''Ambre, le seul monde réel dont tous les autres sont des reflets, des ombres ; que les princes d''Ambre ont la faculté de parcourir ces univers parallèles par la puissance de leur seule volonté. Recouvrant peu à peu la mémoire, Corwin entame un périlleux voyage en direction d''Ambre, glissant d''ombre en ombre dans le but de disputer au prestigieux Eric, le plus brillant des princes, le trône du royaume.