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...

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...

* 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....

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 ...

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...

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...