Alvaro Zinos-Amaro Reviews Roger Zelazny by F Brett Cox locusmag.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from locusmag.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
In this bi-weekly series reviewing classic science fiction and fantasy books, Alan Brown looks at the front lines and frontiers of the field; books about soldiers and spacers, scientists and engineers, explorers and adventurers. Stories full of what Shakespeare used to refer to as “alarums and excursions”: battles, chases, clashes, and the stuff of excitement.
Author Roger Zelazny loved to use unlikely characters as protagonists. In
Nine Princes in Amber, Corwin, a prince from a land of magic, talked and acted like someone out of a Dashiell Hammett detective novel. In
Lord of Light, the powerful Enlightened One preferred to be called Sam. And in
Princes of Air by Elizabeth Schechter circlet.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from circlet.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.