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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1235868640 Title: Roger Zelazny Author: F Brett Cox Publisher: Urbana Chicago Springfield University of Illinois Press [2021] © 2021 ISBN/ISSN: 9780252085758 0252085752 9780252043765 0252043766 OCLC:1235868640

  
  

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Roger Zelazny

Author:	F Brett Cox
Publisher:	Urbana Chicago Springfield University of Illinois Press [2021] © 2021
Series:	Modern masters of science fiction
Edition/Format:	Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	Introduction -- Out of Nowhere: Beginnings--1963 -- Everybody Loves a Winner: 1964-1968 -- Do Quit Your Day Job: 1969-1971 -- A Series of Different Endeavors: 1972-1979 -- Nothing on Spec but Still Some Joy: 1980-1995 -- Afterword -- An Interview with Roger Zelazny -- A Roger Zelazny Bibliography. "Roger Zelazny combined poetic prose with fearless literary ambition to become one of the most influential science fiction writers of the 1960s. Yet many critics found his later novels underachieving and his turn to fantasy a disappointment. F. Brett Cox surveys the landscape of Zelazny's creative life and contradictions. Launched by the classic 1963 short story "A Rose for Ecclesiastes," Zelazny soon won the Hugo Award for Best Novel with ...And Call Me Conrad and two years later won again for Lord of Light. Cox looks at the author's overnight success and follows Zelazny into a period of continued formal experimentation, the commercial triumph of the Amber sword and sorcery novels, and renewed acclaim for Hugo-winning novellas such as "Home Is the Hangman" and "24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai." Throughout, Cox analyzes aspects of Zelazny's art, from his preference for poetically alienated protagonists to the ways his plots reflected his determined individualism. Clear-eyed and detailed, this book provides an up-to-date reconsideration of an often-misunderstood SF maverick"  Read more...
Subjects	Zelazny, Roger -- Criticism and interpretation. Fantasy fiction, American -- History and criticism. Science fiction, American -- History and criticism. View all subjects
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