Roger Zelazny: Volume 1

by F. Brett Cox

Book Overview

Challenging convention with the SF nonconformist

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,"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252085752
• ISBN13: 9780252085758
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"