Roger Zelazny /

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 creati...

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Main Author: Cox, F. Brett, 1958- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2021]
Series:Modern masters of science fiction.
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505 0 |a 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. 
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