By Roger Zelazney, some awesome reading. Hook yourself up with all 10 stories. Or if you haven't already, read its parody, The Dying of Ember.
It sounds cheesy to say now, but these books really changed my life. They were ordered as part of my initial Science Fiction Book Club subscription's free hardcover books when I was a teenager.
I became a fan. In high school, I got hooked on the Amber Diceless Role Playing Game (ADRPG). By the time I had graduated from college, I had read all his short fiction that I could get my hands on (with the UW Madison Memorial graduate studies library available, it was quite a lot of stories and magazines). Years later, I broke down the The Hand of Oberon into story beats and did a short set of storyboards.
While reading his shorts, I developed an aversion to long-winded and poorly crafted sci-fi and fantasy novels. I no longer read fantasy novels, although I once did just to settle a bet. When I read, it's still mostly short fiction.
It sounds cheesy to say now, but these books really changed my life. They were ordered as part of my initial Science Fiction Book Club subscription's free hardcover books when I was a teenager.
I became a fan. In high school, I got hooked on the Amber Diceless Role Playing Game (ADRPG). By the time I had graduated from college, I had read all his short fiction that I could get my hands on (with the UW Madison Memorial graduate studies library available, it was quite a lot of stories and magazines). Years later, I broke down the The Hand of Oberon into story beats and did a short set of storyboards.
While reading his shorts, I developed an aversion to long-winded and poorly crafted sci-fi and fantasy novels. I no longer read fantasy novels, although I once did just to settle a bet. When I read, it's still mostly short fiction.
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