Roger Zelazny
Author
Publisher
William Morrow and Co
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
Loyally accompanying a mysterious knife-wielding gentleman named Jack on his midnight rounds through the murky streets of London, good dog Snuff is busy helping his master collect the grisly ingredients needed for an unearthly rite that will take place not long after the death of the moon. But Snuff and his master are not alone. All manner of participants, both human and not, are gathering with their ancient tools and their animal familiars in preparation...
Author
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
[1971]
Language
English
Description
"The Earth no longer rotates. Sciences 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; who was beheaded in Iglés and rose again from the Dung Pits of Glyve; who drank the blood of a vampire and swallowed a stone--Shadowjack walks in silence and in shadows to seek vengeance upon his enemies. Who are his foes? All who would despise him...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1975.
Language
English
Description
Third in the Amber series, sequel to: THE GUNS OF AVALON. A traitor has revealed the royal family's greatest secret: the ability to manipulate Shadow and travel through all possible worlds, enabling a plot toward Amber's destruction. Corwin, Prince of the Blood, must risk everything in a deadly assault on evil's stronghold. Now, beset by demonic powers beyond imagination and betrayed by a bizarre conspiracy among his own kin, Corwin walks a perilous...
Author
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
1966.
Language
English
Description
The Hugo Award-winning first novel ever written by the bestselling author of The Chronicles of Amber!
Conrad Nomikos has a long, rich personal history that he'd rather not talk about. And, as Arts Commissioner, he's been given a job he'd rather not do. Escorting an alien grandee on a guided tour of the shattered remains of Earth is not something he relishes-especially when it is apparent that this places him at the center of high-level intrigue that...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[1967]
Language
English
Description
His followers called him Mahasamatman and said he was a god. He preferred to drop the Maha- and the -atman, however, and called himself Sam. He never claimed to be a god, but then he never claimed not to be a god.
A holy war rages across the heavens and mankind's fate hangs in the balance.
7) Roadmarks
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1979.
Language
English
Description
The Road runs from the unimaginable past to the far future, and those who travel it have access to the turnoffs leading to all times and places--even to the alternate time-streams of histories that never happened. Why the Dragons of Bel'kwinith made the Road--or who they are--no one knows. But the Road has always been there and for those who know how to find it, it always will be!
Author
Series
Publisher
Arbor House
Pub. Date
[1985]
Language
English
Description
Welcome back to Amber, the one true world of which all others are but shadows and reflections. The Chronicles of Amber is a deeply influential fantasy series beloved by millions of readers.
Trumps of Doom, book 6 of the series and first narrated by Merlin, son of Corwin, opens with Merlin waiting for someone to try and kill him. He knows that an attempt will be made on his life because it's April 30th and someone tries to kill him every April 30th....
9) Wilderness
Author
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alternating between 2 remarkable survival stories, this is a tribute to those who triumphed over the American wilderness in the early nineteenth century.
Author
Publisher
G.K. Hall
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
One of the most revered names in science fiction and fantasy, the incomparable Roger Zelazny was honored with numerous prizes-including six Hugo and three Nebula Awards-over the course of his legendary career. Among his more than fifty books, arguably Zelazny's most popular literary creations were his extraordinary Amber novels. 'The Guns of Avalon' is the second book of The Chronicles of Amber. Across the worlds of Shadow, Corwin, Prince of blood...
Author
Series
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1976.
Language
English
Description
Corwin, one of the princes of the mystical kingdom of Amber, discovers a flaw in the Pattern which gives Amber its substance and sets out to learn who among his rival siblings is trying to destroy the Pattern and Amber along with it.
13) The dream master
Author
Series
Publisher
Gregg Press, a division of G. K. Hall & Co
Pub. Date
1976.
Language
English
Description
Charles Render is a psychoanalyst and a mechanic of dreams -- a Shaper. In a warm womb of metal, his patients dream their neuroses, while Render, intricately connected to their brains, dreams with them, makes delicate adjustments, and ultimately explains and heals. Eileen Shallot, a resident in psychiatry, wants desperately to become a Shaper, though she has been blind from birth. Together, they explore the depths of the human mind -- and the terrors...
Author
Series
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1969.
Language
English
Description
Two gods, two houses, one quest, and the eternal war between life and death To save his kingdom, Anubis, Lord of the Dead, sends forth his servant on a mission of vengeance. At the same time, from The House of Life, Osiris sends forth his son, Horus, on the same mission to destroy utterly and forever The Prince Who Was a Thousand. But neither of these superhuman warriors is prepared for the strange and harrowing world of mortal life, and The Thing...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[1982]
Language
English
Description
Dilivish, a half elf-half man hybrid, failed in his attempt to rescue a young maiden being ritually sacrificed by the dark sorcerer Jelerak. In his anger at the attempt Jelerak kills the maiden and turns Dilvish's body to stone and banished his soul to Hell.
It takes Dilvish two hundred years to escape Hell and reclaim his body. Dilvish does not leave hell unprepared. He returns with a number of very powerful spells and a faithful metal steed, Black...
Author
Publisher
Underwood-Miller
Pub. Date
1981.
Language
English
Description
The Changing Land picks up shortly after the events chronicled in Dilvish, the Damned. Dilvish must gain entry to Castle Timeless if he is to destroy his nemeses Jelerak. Unbenounced to Dilvish, Jelerak is also seeking to gain entrance to his own castle as his apprentice has blocked him out while attempting to lean the castles secrets so that he may become lord of Castle Timeless.
The castle is protected by a lethal, chaotic, ever-changing land....
19) Prince of chaos
Author
Series
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
Merlin Corey travels to the Courts of Chaos, where he discovers the reasons behind many of the forces that have shaped his life.
20) Blood of Amber
Author
Publisher
Arbor House
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
English
Description
Merle Corey, hero of Trumps of Doom (1985), escapes from prison with the help of a woman who has many shapes. Merle Corey escapes from prison into Amber, a world of wonders and confusions where friends and foes are sometimes indistinguishable, where a man is out to kill him and a woman to help him. This is the seventh Amber novel.