Zelazny's principal precedent is his own first sequence of Amber novels.
Although he introduces new elements, Zelazny mainly elaborates on his previously created universe. Amber/ Chaos/Shadow are not as fully realized as Tolkien's Middle Earth or Stephen R. Donaldson's The Land, for example.
One has the sense that while there may be a good deal of vivid action going on in the foreground, the rest of the stage is decked with rather flimsy and illassorted props dredged from a theatrical company's archives. And yet there are hints, especially in the recent Knight of Shadows (1989), that Zelazny intends to explore the underlying significance of Amber.....
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