He incorporated elements from literary novels of the mainstream into his fiction, and experimented with allusion, lyricism, and mythic imagery. Zelazny was considered one of the leading lights of the ”New Wave” movement in science fiction in the 1960s. Zelazny was married twice, in 1964 in 1966. On 1969 he quit to become a full-time writer, and thereafter concentrated on writing novels in order to maintain his income. He deliberately progressed from short-shorts to novelettes to novellas and finally to novel-length works by 1965. Roger Zelazny possessed a unique, dazzling talent his visions of the future, of other worlds and of other realities are, by turns, enchanting and disturbing, and always memorable.īetween 19 Zelazny worked for the Social Security Administration in Cleveland and then in Baltimore, spending his evenings writing science fiction. Three times he won the Nebula Award, and six times the Hugo Award, for excellence in novels and short fiction. His vivid imagination and fine prose made him one of the most highly acclaimed writers in his field. He had a rare ability to mix the dream-like, disturbing imagery of fantasy with the real-life hardware of science fiction. Here are strange, beautiful stories covering the full spectrum of the late Roger Zelazny's remarkable talents.
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