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Most of Zelazny is on the borderline between sf and fantasy. Like his comtemporary Samuel Delany, he crosses genres freely. The Amber books mix magic and technology. His most famous novel, Lord of Light , is science fiction but reads like fantasy, and has a memorable, horrible pun in the middle of it.

admin wrote: Silverberg is a very readable writer, and I love his regular column in Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. But I generally like his early, action/adventure novels better than his more famous and more ambitious later novels. I believe you pronounce Roger's name Z-laz-ny. He wrote a lot of potboilers -- he made his living that way -- but at his best, he was one of the very best. My favorite book by Zelazny is Nine Princes...

I've never read any Silverberg. I suppose I should sometime, but there's so much else I haven't read, too. Right now I'm almost done with John C. Wright's Null-A Continuum . In addition to Van Vogt, it's also reminding me of Stapledon's Star Maker in that the big ideas just keep getting bigger and more encompassing. The most recent chapter I've read ends with the single-sentence paragraph: "The...

Heh, talk about synchronicity - I was hesitating today over Silverberg's re-telling of the Epic of Gilgamesh. Decided not to buy it, on the grounds that I have enough unread books already including a Penguin Classics translation of the original. Currently reading Sherlock Homes: The Unauthorised Biography by Nick Rennison, a totally deadpan account of Holmes' life as if he were a real person. Among his revelations are that Moriarty...