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What's New?

This section is where I'll keep track of major additions and changes to the pages on this site, along with random news announcements or whatever I feel should be shared. I'll keep things listed for at least a month after I add them, with a date indicating the last change.

Added April 28: new Audio/Video page.

Added April 28: pathetic little page for Lord Demon

Updated April 28: a few pages here and there.

Personal Information

Interviews

Interview for Writer's Voice, from 1973. This is the interview Scott Zrubek was offering on CD. You can contact either him or me for a copy on cdr, or download audio VQFs via the link above.
Interview from Absolute Magnitude, html'ized for your benefit by Scott Zrubek.
Interview with Roger Zelazny by Garner Johnson. This interview was on the Parallel Universe Parking website a while back, then vanished when PUP died, so I'm hosting it here pending any request not to do so.
An interview from Phlogiston, Issue 44, conducted by Alex Heatley.
Here's an essay entitled "Forever Amber", which dicusses Amber, Roadmarks, Zelazny's writing habits, and his feelings on collaborations.

Good-bye and hello, as always:

As you might know, Roger Zelazny died the summer of 1995, on June 14. The obituary is here.
Lord of the Fantastic, the tribute anthology for Zelazny, was published in August 1998. It's got a ton of short stories and personal reminiscences of friendships and encounters with Zelazny. Well worth picking up if you're a Zelazny fan.
Trashman wrote the poem "A Tribute", with many allusions to Zelazny's works.
The Locus obituary and Memoriam issues are available as back issues for $3.95 each, plus $1 shipping per issue. The obituary was in the July 1995 issue, and the Memoriam was in the August 1995 issue.
Here's a little more information from George R.R. Martin about Zelazny's death, In Memorium.
Jane Lindskold's personal biography of Zelazny, drawing from the year in which she lived with him before his death. The memoir was written for the game Chronomaster.
Avonbooks had a small (standard) biography on their site, a nice piece by Jane Lindskold which is no longer on their site. I've put up her "Roger Zelazny Appreciation", in which she talks about how they got acquainted and about their year living together, while I wait to get official permission from Avon to host the piece.
Steven Brust's comment on Zelazny, from a post to the rasfw newsgroup.
Edward Bryant's Remembrance of Zelazny, along with a picture of Zelazny.
Michael O'Brien's account of an afternoon spent with the Zelaznys, in Australia. (Original went down; I'm reposting a copy I had saved.)
Terry Bisson's "Roger Zelazny: An Appreciation", from the 1996 World Fantasy Program Book.
Here's a lengthy review of Zelazny's life and career. Note: the original site where this was hosted vanished, so I'm reposting it here. Contact me if you're the original hoster and want it removed.
Another brief biography and review of some of Zelazny's works.

Photos

The photo above is from the back of the dust jacket for Prince of Chaos.
This photo is from the back of the dust jacket for the early books in the Second Chronicles of Amber; my copies of Trumps of Doom and Blood of Amber both have it.
Drawing by Jim Zimmerman (who did the "Last Defender of Camelot" comic) from the front cover of Hymn to the Sun an Imitation.
Photo from page ii of Today We Choose Faces.
Photo from page ii of Jane Lindskold's Roger Zelazny biography.
Photo from the front cover of Jane Lindskold's Roger Zelazny biography.
The first color photo I've seen of Zelazny, from the page mentioned directly above. The original source is The Multimedia Encycopedia of Science Fiction.
I found an old picture I had thought lost stashed on my hard drive of Zelazny with a random fan.
A picture from the 1995 World Fantasy Convention In Memorium page.
A super-tiny photo from a 1993 edition of the Russian newspaper Knignoe obosrenie.
A small picture entitled Paris, 1988.

Printed Bios and Critiques

Hrvoje Niksic wrote a small biography for the Internet Movie Database.
Theodore Krulik wrote a biography/literary analysis called Roger Zelazny. It covers biographical info gleaned from interviews with Zelazny, along with critique of Zelazny's published works through 1986. I read it for an English project a few years back, so here's my report on the book.
Jane Lindskold wrote a similarly titled book; Roger Zelazny. It's also an excellent source for critique of influences on Zelazny and common themes to his writing. I didn't write a review of this one, but Amberzine #8 has reviews by Algis Budrys and Carl Yoke.
I came across an excellent essay on the web positing the theme of personal growth as a crucial element in Zelazny's writings. The essay, entitled Character Development and Psychological Growth: Roger Zelazny's "Great Theme" specifically discusses "A Rose for Ecclesiastes", Lord of Light, and "He Who Shapes".

Honors

Three lists of (hopefully) all the awards and recognitions Zelazny has won or for which he and his works have been nominated:

Sorted by story title
Sorted by date
Sorted by award type (Hugo, Nebula, Locus, etc.)

Zelazny was nominated in 1979 for the Gandalf Award for Grand Master of Fantasy.

Zelazny was the 1994 ICFA Guest of Honor. The ICFA is the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts.

Zelazny's Writings

Information on Zelazny's works is now located on its own page. It includes:

Novels
Amber Novels
Story Collections
Uncollected Stories
Collaborations
Edited/Sponsored Works and Series
Non-Genre Works
Translations

Zelazny's Thoughts on Stuff

Zelazny's comments on other authors and their books.
Where do SF writers get their ideas? Zelazny's answer.

Online Critiques of Zelazny's Works

Here are links to all reviews of Zelazny's works which I've found on the web.

Here's a page of links to dejanews threads of the Roger Zelazny Circle's usenet discussions, covering a bunch of short stories.

Bibliographies

My series of tables which will eventually be a complete bibliography. Also available in non-frames format.
John Wenn's original bibliography, with additions by Chris Bickford.
Collection of Zelazny's letters to editors at Doubleday, located at Indiana University.

Games


See my Chronomaster page for info on this game partially developed by Roger Zelazny and Jane Lindskold.	There exists an old computer game called Nine Princes in Amber, which was primarily text-based and not very successful. Check my NPiA game page for more info.