New Releases by Roger Zelazny

Considerada uma das obras de fantasia mais originais de todos os tempos, nova edição de As Crônicas de Âmbar reúne os cinco primeiros volumes da saga Em um universo onde todos os reinos e mundos são meros reflexos de Âmbar, a cidade eterna e realidade primal, a saga de Roger Zelazny se desdobra em uma trama repleta de intrigas, magia e reviravoltas surpreendentes. Certo dia, Corwin, príncipe de Âmbar, acorda em uma terra estranha sem memórias de seu passado. Ao tentar escapar de seu exílio, ele descobre que sua família é capaz de manipular a realidade, viajar entre as infinitas sombras do multiverso e controlar poderosos artefatos mágicos, como os arcanos. Quando o patriarca da família desaparece misteriosamente, os nove príncipes de Âmbar travam uma guerra implacável pelo trono. Em meio a traições familiares, duelos mágicos e reinos que desafiam a lógica, Corwin embarca em uma jornada épica para recuperar sua identidade, conquistar seu lugar no trono e desvendar o paradeiro de seu pai, o ardiloso rei Oberon. Ao enfrentar perigos de infinitos mundos e a ganância implacável de seus irmãos, cada qual com os próprios segredos e ambições, Corwin descobrirá que a lealdade pode ser tão mutável quanto as sombras que cercam o reino de Âmbar. Considerada uma das obras de fantasia mais originais da história, As Crônicas de Âmbar combina profundas questões filosóficas, referências literárias e uma mitologia singular, consolidando-se como um clássico moderno. O primeiro tomo da série traz o ciclo de Corwin, reunindo os seguintes volumes: Os nove príncipes de Âmbar, As armas de Avalon, O sinal do unicórnio, A mão de Oberon e As Cortes do Caos.

In ancient times he was a powerful wizard known as the Phoenix. But much like oil and coal Mana, the fuel for magic, was a finite resource. Through the ages wizards have fought duels and nations have fallen protecting the limited supply of Mana. Only a handful of wizards have survived into modern days. These wizards keep their identities secret and hide from one another to keep the small amounts of Mana that they posses secret. But another wizard has been trying to kill Phoenix. He has to find out who it is and stop them before his entire supply of Mana is exhausted. Roger Zelazny was a science fiction and fantasy writer, a six-time Hugo Award winner, and a three-time Nebula Award Winner. He published more than forty novels in his lifetime. His first novel, This Immortal, serialized in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction under the title ...And Call Me Conrad won the Hugo Award for best novel. Lord of Light, his third novel, also won the Hugo award and was nominated for the Nebula award. He died at age 58 from cancer. Zelazny was posthumously inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2010. "A storyteller without peer. He created worlds as colorful and exotic and memorable as any our genre has ever seen." -George R.R. Martin ". . . his performance was never anything other than dazzling." -Robert Silverberg

Since he was no one, he could be anyone. He''d been an important part of the team putting together the International Data Bank, which would track every single move made by every single human being. As the project neared completion he realized that no one would ever truly be free again. At the very last moment he blanked his file, changed his face, and created a back door into the system. Now he was nameless, had no past, left no traces, according to the IDB he no longer existed. But he could become anyone at anytime for any reason. Not being in the system meant that he had to earn a living outside of the normal confines of human society. But there were people willing to pay cold, hard cash for a man who could be anyone and then disappear once the job was done. Project RUMOKO plans to use atomic explosions to create artificial island in the ocean. Someone is trying to sabotage the Project. Our nameless hero has been hired to find out who that Someone is. But when he finds out who and why he has some hard decisions to make that have far reaching consequences.

The Road can go Anywhere. The Road can go Anywhen. Almost. Red Dorakeen has been on the Road for a very long time. For all of time, in fact. It stretches infinitely into the future and past, with exits that take him wherever, or whenever, he wants to go. But he can''t find the place he wants to be. He''s not the only one who can travel the Road, and as people join and leave, they can alter the past, or the future, to suit their whims. Exits close off, become overgrown, and working out what to change back to return to old timelines could take, well . . . forever. Fortunately, Red has all the time he could ever need. Roadmarks is a fantastically mind-bending novel from one of SFF''s most influential authors. It weaves together linear and non-linear narratives in a compelling tale full of mystery and magic.

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In the House of the Dead he has been given a name. That name is Wakim, but Wakim knows that this name is not his true name not the name that he carried with him in life. Wakim has been commanded by his master Anubus to find and destroy The Prince Who Was A Thousand. Wakim leaves the House of the Dead intent on carrying out his mission to destroy The Prince Who Was A Thousand, but he has a second, personal mission...to find his true name. And if he does Wakim cannot even imagine how that will change everything... Roger Zelazny was a science fiction and fantasy writer, a six time Hugo Award winner, and a three time Nebula Award Winner. He published more than forty novels in his lifetime. His first novel This Immortal, serialized in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction under the title "...And Call Me Conrad," won the Hugo Award for best novel. Lord of Light, his third novel, also won the Hugo award and was nominated for the Nebula award. He died at age 58 from cancer. Zelazny was posthumously inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2010. "A storyteller without peer. He created worlds as colorful and exotic and memorable as any our genre has ever seen." -George R.R. Martin ". . . his performance was never anything other than dazzling." -Robert Silverberg "Roger Zelazny's work excited me. It was intoxicating and delightful and unique. And it was smart." -Neil Gaiman

“Vivid and elliptical... If you''ve ever asked yourself what would have happened if Philip Marlowe had been Odysseus... here is a clue to the answer.” —New Worlds 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 has some bearing on the future of Earth itself! "Roger Zelazny [was] the compleat New Wave author, so daring he could pen nothing without perturbing some creaky icon... so strong a writer, so moving in the sweep of his plots and imagery."—David Brin

The War Against Evil Has Been Won! In this world the millennial battle against the forces of evil has just been won, and all the hard-working heroes are just about to start living very happily Forever After. But first, you see, there’s this one little problem. To win the aforementioned War Against Evil, four mantic objects of great power had been summoned forth from dark recesses in which they had lain secreted for a thousand year—since, in fact, the last Great War Against Evil. But there was a reason these objects had been buried so long ago: if they are left in the open for any length of time the forces that emanate start to combine—and Bad Things start to happen. Dinosaurs come to battle dragons, and 747s eclipse the Moon—and that’s just for starters. So it is that our heroes must leave hearth and home to go upon their four separate anti-quests to bury for another thousand years the powers that saved the world. And you can join them—Forever After…. With Robert Asprin, David Drake, Jane Lindskold & Mike Stackpole. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Des neuf enfants d'Oberon, c'est à présent Random qui règne sur Ambre depuis la défaite des forces du Chaos. Corwin a disparu, on le croit mort ou privé de raison. Son fils Merlin mène depuis huit ans une existence apparemment paisible sur l'Ombre-Terre, sous le nom de Merle Corey. Mais chaque année, à date fixe, un mystérieux personnage tente de l'assassiner. Et peu à peu s'accumulent les preuves d'une machination visant à détruire pour toujours la magie d'Ambre... Un nouveau cycle commence, celui de Merlin.

Tout peut arriver lorsqu'on appartient à l'illustre famille des Princes d'Ambre. Par exemple, comme Merle Corey en fait l'expérience, se retrouver projeté dans un univers digne d'Alice au pays des merveilles. Une situation qui n'est pas forcément désagréable. Mais quand un monstrueux Jabberwock surgit du décor pour se lancer à votre poursuite, qu'il est de surcroît rejoint par un Ange Igné de la dernière férocité, vous êtes en droit d'estimer que le Chaos a d'étranges façons de vous faire signe ; et qu'il est temps de mettre hors d'état de nuire des ennemis capables de vous débusquer jusque dans les rêves d'autrui. Encore faut-il les démasquer, démêler le vrai du faux, le traître de l'allié, dans un monde de plus en plus semblable à un gigantesque palais des glaces.

Hell Tanner isn't the sort of guy you'd mistake for a hero: he's a fast-driving car thief, a smuggler, and a stone-cold killer. He's also expendable - at least in the eyes of the Secretary of Traffic for the Nation of California. Tanner doesn't care much for those eyes. You'd also never mistake Hell Tanner for a humanitarian. Facing life in prison for his various crimes, he's given a choice; rot away his remaining years in a tiny jail cell, or drive cross-country and deliver a case of antiserum to the plague-ridden people of Boston, Massachusetts...if anyone is still alive there to receive it, that is. The chance of a full pardon does wonders for getting his attention. And don't mistake this mission of mercy for any kind of normal road trip - not when there are radioactive storms, hordes of carniverous beasts, and giant, mutated scorpions to be found along every deadly mile between Los Angeles and the East Coast. But then, this is no normal part of America, you see. This is DAMNATION ALLEY... Roger Zelazny's post-apocalypse novel predates the George Peppard-Jan-Michael Vincent movie vehicle by about a decade and represents the fine storytelling talents of one of science fiction and fantasy's most daring writers (likely best remembered for his imaginative Amber series). Speaking of vehicles: the coolest part of the movie--and likely, thankfully, the only part most people remember--turns out to be even cooler in the book: the flame-spewing, .50-caliber-bullet-belching, grenade-throwing, gigantic all-terrain vehicle that's responsible for getting a crucial antiserum shipment from Los Angeles to Boston to stop a deadly plague. The driver, a despicable lowlife named Hell Tanner, has been given a not-so-difficult choice. He can either get the drugs to the East Coast intact, save humanity, and receive a full pardon for his crimes, or he can refuse and spend the rest of his life in a "zebra suit." So what's the catch? Thanks to World War III, Middle America is now an electrical-storm-torn, heavily irradiated playground for dino-sized Gila monsters, "freak spiders," humongous bats "that eat off the mutie fruit trees down Mexico way," and 120-foot-long snakes as big around as garbage cans. And the native humans still scrambling around the wasteland aren't much less dangerous.

Nada más acceder al trono de Ámbar, Corwin deberá investigar la muerte de Caine, asesinado por unas extrañas y sombrías criaturas... Pero este no será el único asunto turbio al tenga que hacer frente: aunque ha conseguido que sus derechos a la corona prevalezcan, descubrirá que todavía son demasiados los que desean verle muerto. Ámbar es el mundo verdadero, un universo que proyecta infinitos reflejos de sí mismo, solo manipulables por aquellos con sangre real amberita. Las armas de Avalón es el segundo volumen de Las crónicas de Ámbar, la mejor serie de fantasía de Zelazny, comparable en influencia a El señor de los Anillos de Tolkien.

Il a pour nom Mahasamatman, Bouddha, Tathagata ou, plus simplement, Sam. Il est également le prince Siddhartha. Tout juste revenu à la vie, il décide de se mettre en marche et de se soulever contre Brahmâ, Vishnou et Shiva, ces immortels composant la Trimoûrti qui règne sur les habitants d'une planète isolée. En montrant la Voie et en disant la vérité aux mortels, il espère bien faire des ravages dans les rangs des Seigneurs de Lumière... Mêlant fort habilement mythologie hindoue et science-fiction, Seigneur de Lumière est un objet littéraire hors normes. Ce troisième roman de Roger Zelazny est sans doute son œuvre la plus ambitieuse. Il a d’ailleurs été récompensé par le prix Hugo en 1968.

THE SEQUEL TO CHANGELING “With Samuel R. Delany and Harlan Ellison, [Roger Zelazny was] a leading and representative figure of the American new wave sf that urged a shift of emphasis from the external world of the hard sciences to the internal worlds explorable through disciplines like psychology, sociology, linguistics, and the like.” —THE SCIENCE FICTION ENCYCLOPEDIA The people had long suffered under Det Morson’s power . . . lived in terror of his dragons and other minions. When, at last, the wizard Mor joined the fight, Det and his infamous Rondoval castle were destroyed. But the victory was not complete, for the conquerors found a baby amidst the rubble: Det’s son, Pol. Unwilling to kill the child, Mor took him to a world where the ways of magic were considered mere legends—a world called Earth. But the laws of symmetry demanded that Mor take a baby from the other world to replace young Pol Detson, and that child would also remain ignorant of his rightful heritage. As the child—Mark Marakson, born Daniel Chain—matured, he displayed a gift for making mechanical gadgets that soon gave way to a variety of unnatural devices that frightened his neighbors . . . On Earth, Pol Detson grew to become Daniel Chain, a nightclub guitarist possessing mental energies he doesn’t understand. But those mental abilities will soon determine his fate in a terrifying clash of power . . . on a world which, as yet, he knows nothing about.

Isle of the Dead: Centuries in the future, Francis Sandow is the only man alive who was born as long ago as the 20th century. His body is kept young and in perfect health by advanced scientific methods; he has amassed such a fortune that he can own entire planets; and he has become a god. No, not a god of Earth, but one of the panetheon of the alien Pei''ans: he is Shimbo of Darktree, Shrugger of Thunders. Yet he doesn''t believe that his personality has merged with the ancient consciousness of Shimbo, that he really can call down the skies upon his enemies. The time comes, however, when Francis Sandow must use these powers against the most dangerous antagonist in the universe: another Pei''an god -- Shimbo''s own enemy, Belion. And Belion has no doubt whatever of his own powers.... Eye of Cat: A retired hunter of alien zoo specimens, William Blackhorse Singer, the last Najavo on a future Earth, is called upon by the World Government to aid in protecting an alien diplomat from a powerful and hostile member of his own species. Singer, in turn, seeks the aid of a shape-shifting alien known as "Cat" in carrying out the mission. Cat accepts, with one condition: when the mission is over, he wants a return bout with the man who captured him -- a chase with Singer as the hunted instead of the hunter....

Hace cientos de años, Dilvish, mitad elfo mitad humano, interrumpió al peligroso mago oscuro Jelerak en pleno ritual mágico. Semejante atrevimiento le valió el peor de los castigos: su cuerpo fue convertido en piedra y su alma condenada al infierno. La estatua resultante se colocó en la plaza de una ciudad que, tiempo atrás, Dilvish había salvado de ser conquistada. Cuando los habitantes de Portaroy vuelven a necesitar la ayuda de su héroe, hacen todo lo posible por rescatarlo del infierno en el que está retenido. Al volver al mundo de los vivos, lo hace acompañado de Black, una demoníaca montura con cuerpo de metal, y de una cegadora sed de venganza... pero parece que el destino tiene otros planes para él.

His name is Charles Render, and he 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. Her name is Eileen Shallot, a resident in psychiatry. She wants desperately to become a Shaper, though she has been blind from birth. Together, they will explore the depths of the human mind -- and the terrors that lurk therein

Presents a collection of short stories, including "And the Darkness is Harsh," "Museum Piece," "Bok," and "From a Seat in the Chill Park."

"This six volume collection includes all of Zelazny's know short fiction and poetry, three excerpts of important novels, a selection of non-fiction essays, and a few curiosities."--V. 1, p. 5

Earth is long since dead. On a colony planet, a band of men has gained control of technology, made themselves immortal, and now rules their world as the gods of the Hindu pantheon. Only one dares oppose them: he who was once Siddhartha and is now Mahasamatman. Binder of Demons. Lord of Light.

Amber is the one real world, casting infinite reflections of itself - Shadow worlds, that can be manipulated by those of royal Amberite blood. But the royal family is torn apart by jealousies and suspicion; the disappearance of the Patriach Oberon has intensified the internal conflict by leaving the throne apparently up for grabs. In a hospital on the Shadow Earth, a young man is recovering from a freak car accident; amnesia has robbed him of all his memory, even the fact that he is Corwin, Crown Prince of Amber, rightful heir to the throne - and he is in deadly peril ... The five books, Nine Princes in Amber, The Guns of Avalon, Sign of the Unicorn, The Hand of Oberon and The Courts of Chaos, together make up The Chronicles of Amber, Roger Zelazny's finest work of fantasy and an undisputed classic of the genre.

Hell Tanner est un enfoiré de première, un Hell's Angel qui n'a jamais eu le moindre respect pour la vie humaine, la loi et l'ordre. Mais dans un monde broyé par les épidémies, où des rocs tombent du ciel, où les chauves-souris sont de la taille d'un Boeing et les compteurs Geiger dans le rouge, Tanner est la dernière chance de la ville de Boston. A la tête d'un convoi de véhicules blindés, équipés de roquettes et autres canons, il va devoir traverser le pays, de la Californie à la Nouvelle Angleterre, en suivant la route 666, la route de l'enfer sur terre.

Snuff, a guard dog who performs thaumaturgical calculations, accompanies his master, Jack, on collecting expeditions into the Whitechapel slums of nineteenth-century London

Varied characters, including Dr. Johann Faust, are caught up in the contest between the forces of Good and Evil for control of the universe.

Azzy Elbub, demon, has his sights set on the Millenial Evil Deeds Award, given to the being whose acts do the most toward reshaping the world. But his evil plans go far astray. ...

During a term as Secretary-Treasurer of Science Fiction Writers of America, Roger Zelazny, winner of six Hugo awards and three Nebula awards, met Vaughn Bode. Admiring each other's work, they joined forces in the creation of Way Up High and Here There Be Dragons. Roger had written the stories in the late 1960s and found Vaughn's work ideally suited to his text.Vaughn Bode once said of himself, I am the crawly caterpillar, who is the cocoon, who is the butterfly, all at once. Right now ... Magick is with us all the time ... Winner of a Hugo award, illustrator of countless comics, book covers, and magazines, Vaughn Bode died tragically in 1975.Here at last are these two wonderful stories available as a two book numbered slipcased set each individually signed by Roger Zelazny. Way Up High is the moving story of a little girl's friendship with Herman, the last pterodactyl Here There Be Dragons is the lighthearted tale of a king who wants a dragon as a surprise at his daughter's birthday party and the one sensible knight in the kingdom who is charged with this task. Edition limited to 1,000 copies.