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Roger Zelazny

The Chronicles of Amber

<div><h3><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; "><b><u>Fantasy Masterworks Volume 6</u></b></span></h3><h3>Review</h3><p>Roger Zelazny's books have three things in common: a flawed hero who sometimes fails, endlessly surprising plot twists, and a blend of lyricism, literary allusions, and sly puns that makes the pages fly. <em>The Great Book of Amber</em>, collecting all 10 Amber novels, is vintage Zelazny. Despite some irritating typographical errors, it's invaluable for anyone who wants to read or reread the tales of Corwin and his son, Merlin. </p><p>Corwin is a prince of Amber, the "immortal city from which every other city has taken its shape." All other worlds, including Earth, are shadows of that reality. Corwin has spent centuries on Earth as an amnesiac. But when someone in the family tries to kill him there, Corwin begins a search for his past. He quickly learns that his family has some very unusual powers. They can travel between Amber, its shadows, and Chaos by manipulating reality; use magical playing cards to communicate and travel instantaneously; and are able to walk the Pattern that created Amber. Corwin regains his memory, solves the mystery of his father Oberon's disappearance, and fulfills his destiny--only to disappear into Chaos. </p><p>Merlin searches for Corwin and his destiny as a son of both Amber and the Courts of Chaos. His story parallels Corwin's, answering many questions about Amber, Chaos, and the next generation in the family.</p><p>Many readers have complained that the series goes on too long and the ending is disappointing. None, however, would deny that it's filled with fascinating ideas, complex characters, and action-adventure. Don't miss a chance to make up your own mind. <em>--</em></p><p><em><br></em></p><p><em></em></p><em><div class="column-wrapper"><div class="column column2 middle"><div id="tabBlock" class="tabBlock wide-box tabBlockActive active"><div style="display: block;" class="tab active"><div class="attribute-long"><p>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.</p><p> 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 . . . </p><p> 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.</p><p>Have added the other five novels of amber to this compilation as well - because I can!</p> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> <div class="clear"></div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="column column3"> <div id="featured_pages"> <div class="skinny-box featured-pages"> <h3 class="sIFR-replaced" style=""><br></h3></div></div></div></div></em><p></p></div><

Michelle Zink

Circle of Fire

Rebecca Zanetti

Claimed

<p><B>He wants her. She needs him. </B><P><B>Total Submission</B><P>Private Investigator Mandy Thompson knows how to dig beneath the surface and uncover secrets about other people. But the tables are turned when she enters the erotic lair of Master Zane and finds herself revealing her most intimate sexual fantasies. Within this world of dark and dangerous passion, she gives in to her desire for extreme pleasure. She is no longer in control. Her body craves the sensual ecstasy only one man can give her. All she can do is surrender to her master. . .<P><B>Praise for Tawny Taylor</B><P>"Delicious taboo sex and intrigue. . .irresistible!" &#8212;Eden Bradley on <I>Darkest Fire</I><P>"Absolutely delicious!" &#8212;Kate Douglas on <I>Dark Master</I><

Cecily Von Ziegesar

Classic

Timothy Zahn

Cobra War #01 - Cobra Alliance

Timothy Zahn

Cobra War #02 - Cobra Guardian

SUMMARY: When the colony worlds Adirondack and Silvern fell to the Troft forces almost without a struggle. Outnumbered and on the defensive, Earth made a desperate decision. It would attack the aliens not from space, but on the ground—with forces the Trofts did not even suspect. Thus were created the Cobras, a guerilla force whose weapons were surgically implanted, invisible to the unsuspecting eye, yet undeniably deadly. And the Moreau family were the most famous of the Cobra warriors. Long after victory over the Troft was achieved, the Cobras made common cause against their former adversaries against a new enemy. Their reward was three planets that would be a home for the Cobras, who deadly powers made them too dangerous to feel at home on Earth. Now, years had passed and not everyone on the Cobra worlds thought that the Cobras were worth the cost of maintaining their existing built-in weaponry, let alone supporting research to improve the Cobra weapons, and possibly even put an end to the negative effects of that built-in weaponry, which caused Cobras to die much too young. Many who had never known interplanetary war were convinced that the Cobras were not needed at all. That was a grave miscalculation, because a Troft faction has decided to invade the Cobra planets in force, using a new strategy that even the formidable Cobra warriors may not be able to defeat . . . Praise for Timothy Zahn:“Zahn keeps the story moving at a breakneck pace, maintaining excitement [in Dragon and Thief].” —Publishers Weekly “[Conqueror's Heritage] is another finely wrought space adventure . . . [with] social, political and emotional complications, all of which Zahn treats with his usual skill.” —Booklist “Zahn paints every detail [in Angelmass] with gleamy realism . . . scientific dialogue that streams with starship hardware and military trooper talk . . . immensely appealing.” —Kirkus Review<

Roger Zelazny

Coils

<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>A new entity is being born. Its cells are microprocessors, its soul lives in data banks from Wall Street to Red Square. It is neither good nor evil. But it is very dangerous. The Angra Oil Corporation thinks it is just another resource to be used up.... </p><p>Coils: The story of a man and a woman trapped in the battle between a soulless corporation and the soul of a new machine. </p><h3>About the Author</h3><p>In addition to the popular Dracula Series,<strong> Fred Saberhagen</strong> is the author of the popular Berserker (tm) Series and the bestselling <em>Lost Swords </em>and <em>Book of Lost Swords</em>. Fred Saberhagen lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. </p></div><

Roger Zelazny

Creatures of Light and Darkness

Two gods, two houses, one quest, and the eternal war between life and death To save his kingdom, Anubis, Lord of the Dead, sends forth his servant on a mission of vengeance. At the same time, from The House of Life, Osiris sends forth his son, Horus, on the same mission to destroy utterly and forever The Prince Who Was a Thousand. But neither of these superhuman warriors is prepared for the strange and harrowing world of mortal life, and The Thing That Cries in the Night may well destroy not only their worlds, but all mankind. As Zelazny did with the Hindu pantheon in the legendary, groundbreaking classic "Lord of Light," the master storyteller here breathes new life into the Egyptian gods with another dazzling tale of mythology and imagination.<

Stephen Zimmer

Crown of Vengeance

Anthony E Zuiker

Dark Prophecy

<h3>Product Description</h3><p><strong>The second book in the groundbreaking bestselling trilogy, from the creator of the <em>CSI</em> franchise. </strong> <br /></p><p>Steve Dark was once a lost soul, torn between his family and his one-of-a-kind talent for hunting and catching serial killers-especially those so-called "level 26" killers whose depravity exceeds law enforcement's official scale of evil. In his reluctant pursuit of justice Dark once crossed the ultimate line, a line that might cause a lesser man to lose himself completely. <br /></p><p>Not Dark. When the world took everything from him, when it destroyed the very thing Dark once lived for, it brought a moment of clarity that few before him have witnessed, and sparked a transformation that, several years later, is only just complete. <br /></p><p>Dark is now a man on a mission. A mission that no longer requires law enforcement support. A mission unbound by authorities, moral or otherwise, and supported by a mysterious benefactor with unknown goals of her own. A mission that, at long last, allows him to embrace his destiny. Dark is finally ready- ready to take justice to the next level. </p><h3>About the Author</h3><p><strong>Anthony E. Zuiker</strong> is the creator and executive producer of the most watched television show in the world, <em>CSI: Crime Scene Investigation</em>. He produces all three editions of the <em>CSI</em> franchise, and lives in Las Vegas and Los Angeles. </p><

Émile Zola

The Debacle

Roger Zelazny

Dilvish, the Damned

Timothy Zahn

Distant friends

SUMMARY: In love with fellow telepath Colleen Isaac, Dale Ravenhall realizes that the very thing that enables him and Colleen to read each other's minds would kill them both if they came within twenty miles of each other. Original.<

Anne Zouroudi

The Doctor of Thessaly

Roger Zelazny

Doorways in the Sand

Timothy Zahn

Dragonback #01 - Dragon and Thief

Framed for a crime he did not commit, Jack Morgan seeks refuge on a distant planet, accompanied by the virtual presence of his late Uncle Virge, a con man, until a battle forces Jack into a symbiotic relationship with the sole survivor, the dragon-like K'da, and the two must track down those responsible for Jack's frame-up and the threatened destruction of the K'da. Reprint.<

Timothy Zahn

Dragonback #02 - Dragon and Soldier

Dragon and Thief, the first novel in the Dragonback series, was named an American Library Association Best Book For Young Adults. The second novel, Dragon and Soldier is another fast-paced, compulsively readable SF adventure featuring an odd couple of reluctant partners on an unusual quest. Draycos, a golden-scaled draconic K'da poet-warrior, was on a scout fleet ship when it was attacked, with him the lone survivor. Forced to find a new symbiotic humanoid host, he found Jack Morgan. Jack has been on his own, making his way by shipping interstellar cargo on the ship he's inherited from his Uncle Virgil, a con-man and thief who met with a fatal accident. Draycos has vowed to uncover those behind a vast conspiracy to wipe out his people, while Jack is determined to find out who framed him for a crime he didn't commit. Virgil, who survives as "Uncle Virge" in the ship's computer, is against their plan. But Draycos once saved Jack's life, so Jack feels an obligation to this strange creature who can slip onto the boy's skin, pressing against it like a living tattoo. Knowing that mercenaries were involved in the ambush that killed Draycos's fleet, Jack enlists in a mercenary outfit that practically enslaves adolescent recruits. But the soldier's life isn't exactly what Jack had bargained for, especially when a mysterious girl is recruited into his group. Strange things are happening, and people and events are not always as they seem.<

Timothy Zahn

Dragonback #03 - Dragon and Slave

<h3>Review</h3><p>Praise for the Dragonback Adventures<br /></p><p>"The opener of the Dragonback series is a romp of a space thriller."<br />-<em>Booklist</em> on<em> Dragon and Thief</em><br /></p><p>"Well paced and smoothly narrated. Jack and Draycos learn to trust each other-and discover they have enemies in common." <br />--<em>Kirkus Reviews</em> on<em> Dragon and Thief</em><br /></p><p>"This start to a new SF adventure series from Hugo Award-winner Zahn will appeal to young readers . . . Zahn keeps the story moving at breakneck speed." <br />--<em>Publishers Weekly</em> on<em> Dragon and Thief</em><br /></p><p>"Zahn applies his considerable talents to creating a universe populated by diverse aliens and run by a mixture of government agencies and corporate power brokers. . . . Packed with adventure and suspense" <br />--<em>Divers Hands</em> on<em> Dragon and Thief</em><br /></p><p>"A space opera for all ages." <br />--<em>Critical Mass</em> on<em> Dragon and Thief</em><br /></p><p>"Recently I was asked if anyone was still writing the kind of grand space adventure like Heinlein's juveniles or Andre Norton's tales that enticed so many people into science fiction fandom. Now I have the answer and it is a resounding yes! Zahn rocks!"<br />--<em>Genrefluent</em> on<em> Dragon and Soldier</em><br /></p><h3>About the Author</h3><p>TIMOTHY ZAHN has written twenty-five SF novels, including the all-time bestselling<em> Star Wars</em> tie-in novel, <em>Heir to the Empire</em>, and <em>Dragon and Thief </em>and <em>Dragon and Soldier</em>, the first two Dragonback novels. Winner of the Hugo Award, he lives in Oregon, where he's working on the next Dragonback adventure, <em>Dragon and Herdsman</em>.<br /></p><

Timothy Zahn

Dragonback #04 - Dragon and Herdsman

<h3>From School Library Journal</h3><p>Grade 5-8–Jack Morgan, a 14-year-old orphaned thief on a distant planet, is the symbiont (biological partner) of Draycos, a wise, dragonlike alien. Jack and Draycos are on the run from a squadron of bad guys called the Malison Ring after Jack tries to break into their computer system. They, along with their sometime-friend Alison, temporarily escape to the wilderness of the planet Rho Scorvi, where they encounter a herd of beasts, the Phookas, very much like Draycoss Kda people, but with seemingly little intelligence. When the Malison Ring arrives and starts tearing up the forest in pursuit of Jack, he must become a herdsman of the Phookas while trying to save their lives and his own. Each volume in this adventure saga reveals a little more about the reticent Kda and about Jack, who grows from a heedless boy to a true hero. Great escape reading for classic sci-fi fans.<em>–Walter Minkel, New York Public Library</em> <br />Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. </p><h3>Review</h3><p>"Well paced and smoothly narrated. Jack and Draycos learn to trust each other--and discover they have enemies in common."<br />--<em>Kirkus Reviews </em>on <em>Dragon and Thief</em><br /></p><p>"This start to a new SF adventure series from Hugo Award-winner Zahn will appeal to young readers . . . Zahn keeps the story moving at breakneck speed."<br />--<em>Publishers Weekly </em>on <em>Dragon and Thief<br /></em><br />"A space opera for all ages."<br />--<em>Locus </em>on<em> Dragon and Thief</em><br /></p><p>"Recently I was asked if anyone was still writing the kind of grand space adventure like Heinlein's juveniles or Andre Norton's tales that enticed so many people into science fiction fandom. Now I have the answer and it is a resounding yes! Zahn rocks!"<br />--<em>Genrefluent</em> on <em>Dragon and Soldier</em><br /></p><

Timothy Zahn

Dragonback #05 - Dragon and Judge

<h3>Review</h3><p>"Zahn has always managed to tell an enthralling story in the past, and this one is no exception. Ignore the young adult label if you’re older and read it anyway.”<br />--<em>Chronicle</em> on <em>Dragon and Slave</em><br /><br />“As with the other books in the series, this novel is a well-done, lightweight adventure story. Zahn continues to find ways to put Draycos’s unique symbiotic nature to good use, and fans will look forward to the promised fourth volume in the series, Dragon and Herdsman."<br />--<em>Voices of Youth Advocates </em>on<em> Dragon and Slave</em><br /><br />“This first book in the Dragonback series is a fast-paced suspense novel, full of exciting twists and turns in the story. But it’s not a simple adventure tale; the partnership of a con man and an honorable warrior raises some interesting questions about morality. Just enough of the story is wrapped up at the end to feel satisfying, while leaving plenty of questions to be answered in future installments of the series.”<br />--<em>Kliatt </em>on<em> Dragon and Thief</em><br /><br />“Zahn keeps the story moving at a breakneck pace, maintaining excitement”<br />--<em>Publishers Weekly </em>on<em> Dragon and Thief</em><br /><br />"It's a good lightweight adventure story, a space opera for all ages."<br />--<em>Science Fiction Chronicle </em>on<em> Dragon and Thief</em></p><h3>About the Author</h3><p><strong>Timothy Zahn</strong> has written more than thirty SF novels, including <em>Dragon and Thief</em>, <em>Dragon and Soldier</em>, <em>Dragon and Slave </em>and <em>Dragon and Herdsman, </em>the first four Dragonback novels; as well as <em>Night Train to Rigel, The Green and the Gray</em>, <em>Blackcollar: The Judas Solution</em>, the all-time bestselling Star Wars spinoff novel, <em>Heir to the Empire</em>, and as a number of other best-selling Star Wars novels. Winner of the Hugo Award, he lives in Oregon.</p><

Timothy Zahn

Dragonback #06 - Dragon and Liberator

In this exciting space adventure, fourteen-year-old Jack Morgan and Draycos, a poet/warrior K'da dragon who can hide himself as a tattoo on Jack's back, have their backs to the wall. Brought together by a twist of fate, these two have been through a lot of scrapes, risking death and imprisonment on worlds far and wide, seeking justice for Jack and information that might save Draycos's people from a genocidal ambush. But now, Neverlin, the man who killed Jack's parents and destroyed the scout fleet of which Draycos was the sole survivor, is about to ambush millions of K'da refugees, and kill them with a Death weapon that kills any living being within its range. To prevent Neverlin from eradicating the K'da race, Jack and Draycos must somehow disable the Death. But for Jack and Draycos, things never seem to go the way they should. When Jack's friend Alison is captured, Jack gives himself up to keep her from being harmed. Neverlin, with Jack and Draycos as his prisoners, holds all the cards. But desperate times call for desperate measures, as time is running out, not just for our young heroes, but also for the millions of K'da who face annihilation, and resourceful Jack and his remarkable ally will fine a way . . . or die trying.  A powerful, thrilling conclusion to this terrific Young Adult six-book series. Fun for readers 10 and older.<

Roger Zelazny

The Dream Master

Charles Render is a shaper, one of a small number of psychotherapists qualified, by his granite will and ultra-stability, to use the extraordinary device that enables him to to participate in, and control, his patients' dreams. But this is a dangerous therapy for the therapist and only his armour-plated integrity protects Render from too deep an involvement in the mental worlds of the damaged people he seeks to help. But then, Eileen Shallot, another therapist who is blind, asks him to help her 'see' by transferring from his mind to hers a world of colour and light. Render agrees but suddenly finds himself obsessed with Eileen and drawn into fantasies which, she controls.<

Stephen Zimmer

Dream of Legends

Émile Zola

The Earth

Jamie Zeppa

Every Time We Say Goodbye

Roger Zelazny

Eye of Cat

Rebecca Zanetti

Fated

<h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>Neither her empathic abilities nor her role as the single mother of psychic four-year-old Janie prepares plant physiologist Cara Paulsen for the intruder who claims to be kidnapping Cara and Janie for their own good. Janie assures Cara that Talen Kayrs really is trying to protect them from great danger, but Cara's skeptical, especially after learning that Talen is a vampire certain she's fated to be his mate. He insists they marry at once so Cara and Janie can be under the protection of his family. The mysterious enemy Kurjans covet women with special abilities and particularly want to get their hands on Janie. Cara wants to keep her daughter safe, but can she trust this domineering, sexy vampire? Debut author Zanetti bolsters this rather absurd setup with steamy scenes and some genuinely warm moments. (Mar.) <br />(c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved. </p><h3>Review</h3><p>A recommended spring read!  <br />--Publisher's Weekly<br /></p><p>Fated is "<em>original and engaging, I recommend FATED to vampire paranormal romance fans everywhere for an enjoyable, sexy read</em>." -- Lenore at Romance Reviews Today<br /></p><p>"<em>Fated will pull you into a world of dominating, hot and hard vampires...steal your breath...and never let you go</em>." -- Nikki Brandyberry Reviews<br /></p><p>"<em>Fated is one of my new favorite paranormal romances</em>!" -- The Pen and Muse </p><

Robert Zubrin

First Landing

SUMMARY: A five-person crew become the first humans to walk upon the Red Planet in a landmark mission to Mars. But when their findings set off a wave of controversy and political upheaval back home, public opinion turns against the mission and they are left stranded. As their situation becomes more desperate, the crew must try to pull together--because if they don't save themselves, no one else will. (August)<

Roger Zelazny

Flare

<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>As the Titan Cartel brings two hundred trillion tons of liquid natural gas down to Earth, maverick astrophysicist Hannibal Freede searches for signs of strange phenomena on the sun. </p></div><

Daphna Edwards Ziman

The Gray Zone

<p>To flee an abusive household, Kelly Jensen becomes an elusive identity thief. To save herself and her children, she steals the heart of one man and must stop another's&#8212;cold. Shaped by a brutal and orphaned childhood, abused and sexually exploited, Kelly Jensen has become a daring and seductive criminal, a beautiful and bewitching master of disguise and identity theft, in order to protect the lives of her children and to bring down a ruthless underworld subjecting foster children to white slavery.<

Roger Zelazny

Isle of the Dead

Émile Zola

The Kill

Anne Zouroudi

The Lady of Sorrows

Roger Zelazny

Last Defender of Camelot

<h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>Though SF "master of prose technique" and "paragon of the storytelling art" (in the introductory words of Robert Silverberg, himself a certified luminary) Roger Zelazny died in 1995, collections of his work appear on shelves with pleasing regularity. The Last Defender of Camelot, the fifth in the series of new Zelazny editions, offers readers 11 of what Silverberg has deemed his best stories, including "24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai," which earned him one of his six Hugos, and 1992's "Come Back to the Killing Ground, Alice, My Love," which has not been previously collected. <br />Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. </p><h3>About the Author</h3><p>Roger Zelazny was a three-time Nebula Award and six-time Hugo Award-winning author of science fiction and fantasy classics, including the short stories "24 Views of Mount Fuji, by Hokusai," "Permafrost," and "Home is the Hangman." Zelazny was the bestselling author of the ten-volume Chronicles of Amber series of fantasy novels, as well as the novels Lord of Light, and Psychoshop (written with Alfred Bester). Zelazny's novel Damnation Alley served as the basis for the 1972 cult film of the same name, starring Jan Michael Vincent and George Peppard. </p><

Richard Zimler

The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon

<h3>Amazon.com Review</h3><p>Richard Zimler's <em>The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon</em> is not a particularly religious novel, but it uses religion to great dramatic effect. Although its story takes place during the 16th- century slaughter of Jews in Portugal, and its main characters are Jewish mystics, Zimler is less interested in describing their spiritual lives than in plotting a fantastic murder mystery. The book purports to be a modern translation of a medieval manuscript telling the story of the murder of a great kabbalist in Lisbon named Abraham. Occasionally, the story invokes a bit of kabbalist wisdom that is every bit as luminous as the ancient texts that inspired this novel: "Books are created from holy letters," one character says. "Just as angels are, according to some. Viewed from this perspective--through a window of Kabbalah, if you like--an angel is nothing but a book given heavenly form." Such moments are too rare for the book to be very perceptive about the tradition to which its title alludes, but nevertheless, it's an absorbing and genuinely suspenseful story. <em>-- Michael Joseph Gross</em></p><h3>From Library Journal</h3><p>Recently, Jewish mysticism has become a popular draw, and this first novel?a best seller in Portugal, where it was first published and where American author Zimler lives?is worthy reading even for those in a nonphilosophical frame of mind. From the moment Berekiah Zarco, a Jewish resident of Lisbon during the early 1500s, discovers the murder of his religious mentor (with a nude female corpse beside the holy man), the story moves quickly. Trailing suspects, Zarco and his cronies navigate the blood-soaked streets of Lisbon during a Christian "purge" of Jewish faithful. Along the way, the reader learns about the age's homeopathic cures and observes a traditional Jewish exorcism. Those who understand and appreciate the history of Kabbalah can revel in the mysticism; the uninitiated will gain perspective while enjoying a literary and historical treat.?Margee Smith, Grace A. Dow Memorial Lib., Midland, MI<br />Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. </p><

Michael Zadoorian

The Leisure Seeker

Roger Zelazny

Lord Demon

<h3>Amazon.com Review</h3><p>Roger Zelazny (1937-1995) was a wizard of the pen: he won six Hugos and three Nebulas and is revered by science fiction <em>and</em> fantasy readers. <em>Lord Demon</em> is his last novel, the second of two projects unfinished at his death. Jane Lindskold, his partner and a fantasy author herself, completed it from some manuscript, a few notes, and conversations she'd had with him. Fans are often skeptical of posthumous collaborations: "It's not <em>real</em> Zelazny"--but <em>Lord Demon</em> comes darned close. It deserves space beside the Amber series, <em>The Dream Master</em>, and <em>Lord of Light</em>. As Zelazny once said of another novel: "It has all my favorite things--blood, love, fire, hate and a high ideal or two."</p><p><em>Lord Demon</em> is vintage Zelazny: a "scientific" fantasy built on favorite themes (the necessity of knowing oneself, of taking risks, and of accepting the vulnerability that comes with feeling passionately), drawing on East Asian, Irish, and hero's quest myths, and featuring his signature protagonist: erudite, smart-mouthed, detached, homicidal when roused but more often immersed in art, poetry, and the creation of alternate realities; unexpectedly kind to the weak and deeply romantic in his approach to women. The bad puns and wildly whimsical turns the story takes are also characteristic.</p><p>Fans will hear echoes of Amber: Kai Wren and his demon colleagues represent Chaos; the gods live in Origin, imposing their will to order the planes of existence; the powerful demon He of the Towers of Light has sculpted his home to resemble Origin, and approaching it is much like walking the Pattern; and so on. What's unique is what Kai Wren learns in <em>Lord Demon</em>. The immortal doesn't fail, nor does he return triumphant to marry and rule his folk. This hero and the author finally accept the limits of superpower and the pleasures in being "only human." <em>---Nona Vero</em></p><h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>Zelazny left two novel manuscripts unfinished when he died in 1995. One was Donnerjack, which Lindskold (Brother to Dragons, etc.) completed for 1998 publication. This is the second. Zelazny is best known for characters who, in between waging interdimensional battles and building planets, still have time to be very human. Lord Demon, also called Kai Wren, and sometimes Godslayer, follows that familiar model. Once the greatest of his kind, Kai, along with the other demons, was banished from their homeland 5000 years ago by the gods. The demons found a way to Earth, specifically China, where they rebuilt their lives. For the last few millennia, Kai has withdrawn from demon society, focused on constructing splendid magical bottles infused with his chi. Now his human servant and best friend has been murdered. Assuming the crime is merely one born of an old grudge, Kai doesn't take it too seriously. That is, until he's betrayed and stripped of his ability to manipulate chi energyAreducing him to the merely human in a new war among demonkind. Fighting back means dangerous alliances and sticking his neck out as he hasn't done for thousands of years. Most dangerous of all, however, is the possibility that Kai is just a pawn in a plot that passed him by years ago. Though the novel is slow to get moving, once the fight is on, it doesn't let up. The narrative weaves a fine line between tragedy and humor, sometimes slapstick, as Kai gathers a ragtag band of Chinese sorcerers and shape changers and Pekinese dogs. Lindskold effectively captures the voices of Zelazny's wise-cracking characters and continues the expert blending of magical and mundane that makes his work so enjoyable. This novel is fine Zelazny, and a fine tribute. (Aug.) <br />Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. </p><

Roger Zelazny

Madwand

Raised on Earth, Pol Detson, the son of Lord Det and a powerful sorcerer of great if untrained ability, returns home to Rondoval, a world of magic, where he must learn to control his powers in order to survive. Reprint.<

Roger Zelazny

The Mask of Loki

An eternal duel between good and evil, which began in the thirteenth century, continues as the twenty-first century approaches and Loki tries to put an end to the domination of Ahriman, the Lord of Darkness<

Anne Zouroudi

The Messenger of Athens

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