My earliest sci-fi/fantasy influence was Roger Zelazny’s Amber Chronicles books. A different friend loaned me that first book (as opposed to the friend who gave me the book I talked about in my essay over at The Canary Review). It seems in my history, the route to new ideas and books come through friends who have gone ahead of me to discover what I might never have found on my own. I’m so thankful for that.
That other book was a gift. The Zelazny books were loaned out one at a time with dire threats to my well-being if they weren’t returned in like condition. Now that’s the mark of a loved book, so I knew I would love them, too. And I did. Now I’m trying to find my own copies, some twenty years later. I’d like to read them again, this time from the perspective of a writer.
I’ve read every Heinlein novel until their covers have fallen off and the pages are dog-eared so I know how you feel. Never read Roger. Nice to know there’s fresh new/old voices I can listen to.
Thanks, Mads.
Say, what are the chances you’vechose a picture for Friday yet? And then…and don’t tell anybody i asked you this,….but what are thechances you’d let me look at it….now?
I’m bad, I know, but if you don’t ask, the answer’s always no.
Aloha,
D.
Hahahah, Doug. I have candidates but no winner chosen yet for Thursday’s pic. What I usually like to do is carry the camera around all that week and pic one Wednesday night. I’ll post the pic very early Thursday morning. No unfair advantages that way, lol. But if you already have a story in mind, you don’t have to use the photo prompt.
Thanks, Mads. Good luck with your technical difficulties. I’ll wait for the pic.
I love the Amber books! There is nothing else quite like them.
You are the first person I’ve talked to that has read them! I think his style imprinted on me when I was young, and although there were many years since then until I really started writing, I’m wondering now if I’d still like it. So I want to go back and read it again now to see.