----- Original Message ----- From: "Barbara Baj" <tmer at eudoramail.com> To: <dragaera at dragaera.info> Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 5:12 PM Subject: RE: the next vlad book? > >> > If anyone has not read Zelazny yet I don't know why they are on this list! > Zelazny at his best was a Short Story writer, in my opinion. My favorite of his works is _Creatures of Light and Darkness_, which according to him, he wrote for the sheer fun of it. > _Night of the Lonesome October_, if you can find it, is another 'great'. _Lord of Light_ won awards, was a good book, but somehow will not win a place in my heart. Any of his short story collections I think you'll not be disappointed in. I have not heard about this one!!! > Avoid the Jane Lindskold/ Zelazny joint efforts. In my opinion, they > just aren't good, and only show painfully that his talent is gone forever. Its true that towards the end Zealzny's work was not as good as it was, and all the collaborations he did towards the end were crap. I suspect he did not do any of the actual writing, sort of like 'John Clancy's Op Center' books. But most of his earlier books were classics, Creatures of Light and Darkness Four for Tomorrow (short stories) Isle of the Dead Jack of Shadows Lord of Light My Name is Legion Roadmarks This Immortal (absolutely great) The original Amber Series (one of the best things ever written) I read somewhere that his creative process involved imbibing large quantities of either alcohol (or other substances) and then writing whatever came to mind. After I read that I did not try to hard to reconcille the contradictions in each book and just went with the flow of the story. Ian