Three years later, he switched to the U.S. Army Reserves, from which he was discharged in late 1966.Many of his military experiences show up in his work. At one time, for example, he was part of the "Arts, Monuments, and Archives" special unit of the 2370th Civil Affairs Group, which specialized in preserving culturally important artifacts in occupied foreign countries after a war. His activities with this group generated the basic ideas of
This Immortal (1966). In 1962 Zelazny got a job with the Social Security Administration and was assigned to the downtown Cleveland office as a claims representative. His first stories appeared while he worked there, and during that same period he became engaged to Sharon Steberl, another claims representative, whom he married on 5 December 1964. Less than a year after their wedding, they separated, and shortly thereafter, Zelazny was promoted to the main office of the Social Security Administration in Baltimore, Maryland. On 20 August 1966, Zelazny married another Social Security employee, Judith Alene Callahan, from Columbus, Ohio.
Between 1962 and 1969 when he quit his job to write full-time, Zelazny wrote profusely and did some of his very best work. He was nominated for the Hugo and Nebula awards sixteen times during this period and won each twice.
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