Roger Zelazny / F. Brett Cox.

0252052668 (electronic book)
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9780252085758 (paperback acid-free paper)

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2021]

English

1 online resource (x, 208 pages).

PS3576.E43 Z64 2021

(OCoLC)1226810933

"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"-- Provided by publisher

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed May 20, 2021).

Modern masters of science fiction.

Print version: Cox, F. Brett, 1958- Roger Zelazny. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2021]

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