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Biography

Name: Roger (Joseph) Zelazny
Variant Name: Roger Zelazny, Roger Joseph Zelazny, Harrison Denmark
Birth Date: May 13, 1937
Death Date: June 16, 1995
Nationality: American
Gender: Male

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Biography of Roger (Joseph) Zelazny
4,684 words, approx. 16 pages
A winner of both Hugo and Nebula awards, Roger Zelazny has an international reputation. His work has been translated into French, Italian, Spanish, German, Dutch, Swedish, Greek, Hebrew, and Japanese, and it has been adapted for other media, including...


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Roger Zelazny Quotes
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Roger Joseph Zelazny ( 13 May 1937 - 14 June 1995 ) was a United States writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels. See also: The Chronicles of Amber & Lord of Light Sourced I see myself as a novelist, period. I mean, the...


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Roger Zelazny Information
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Roger Joseph Zelazny (May 13, 1937 – June 14, 1995) was an American writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels. He won the Nebula award three times (out of 14 nominations) and the Hugo award six times (out of 14 nominations),...


News and Journals
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The Independent - London
Obituary: Roger Zelazny
06/22/1995: 812 words, approx. 3 pages
Roger Joseph Zelazny, science- fiction writer: born Cleveland, Ohio 13 May 1937; died Santa Fe, New Mexico 14 June 1995. Roger Zelazny's "moment" was in the mid-1960s, during the first surge of the American New Wave in science fiction. His earliest short...
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Extrapolation
Roger Zelazny's road to Amber.
03/22/2002: 4,503 words, approx. 15 pages
* I suppose most science fiction writers expect to be asked by fans, "Where do you get your ideas from?" Those writers who anticipate the question probably have an answer ready. I'm sure you know what Harlan Ellison has said about it....
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Carl B. Yoke
4,770 words, approx. 16 pages
Renewal is an abiding concern of Roger Zelazny's writing, especially his early work. In fact, this theme is so deeply engrained in his thinking that most of his significant fiction uses it in one way or another. "A Rose for Ecclesiastes" treats the restoration of fertility to a barren Mars and the salvation of the natives from racial suicide. This Immortal treats the restoration of an irradiated Earth. Lord of Light treats the renewal of a society. The five "Amber" novels ...
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Critical Essay by Lester Del Rey
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Recently, writers and publishers in the book field seem to be discovering the serial all over again. No, not the series of novels, in which each story has some kind of an ending…. I mean a serial—a single story published in several books. That's a matter of turning one into many, making each book only an installment of the whole. That strikes me as being completely unfair to the reader, who purchases a book in the expectation that he's getting a story—only to find out that...
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Critical Essay by Ted Pauls
639 words, approx. 2 pages
Roger Zelazny infuriates me. I am not speaking as a reader. As a science fiction reader for seventeen years, I am impressed almost to the point of reverence by Zelazny. Nor am I speaking in personal terms. I've met Roger, and he is at the very opposite end of the spectrum from infuriating. But in my capacity as a reviewer, I am infuriated by Roger Zelazny. He does things, magic things, with words, things that cannot be neatly marked, catalogued and described. He employs concepts and symbolism that sh...
 


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