and some effective Navajo venues. Had it not been for the romantic sublimities
of his first years, RZ's career might have been seen as triumphant.

He is not, however, regarded as a writer whose later works have fulfilled
his promise, and it may be that he has suffered the inevitable price
of writing at the peak of intensity and conviction when young: that
he may already have put into definitive form the heart of what exercises
him as a man and as a writer. The plummets into INNER SPACE, the sensitized
baroque intricacy of his rendering of the immortal longings of men who
all too easily slip into secret-guardian routines, the rush into metamorphosis:
all have had their cost. Though his Amber books and some other fantasies
(see listing below) exhibit a sustained freshness, RZ's sf readership
has been left with the inspired facility of an extremely intelligent
writer who does not desperately need to utter another word. [JC]

Other works: Today We Choose Faces (1973); To Die in Italbar (1973),
featuring Francis Sandow, the protagonist of Isle of the Dead; Poems
(coll 1974 chap); Bridge of Ashes (1976); The Illustrated Zelazny (graph
coll 1978; rev vt The Authorized Illustrated Book of Roger Zelazny 1979);
the Changing Land sequence, comprising The Bells of Shoredan (1966 Fantastic;
1979 chap), The Changing Land (1981) and Dilvish, the Damned (coll of
linked stories 1982); For a Breath I Tarry (1966 NW; 1980 chap); When
Pussywillows Last in the Catyard Bloomed (coll 1980 chap), poetry; the
Wizard World sequence, comprising Changeling (1980) and Madwand (1981),
both assembled as Wizard World (omni 1989); Today We Choose Faces/Bridge
of Ashes (omni 1981); To Spin is Miracle Cat (coll 1981), poems; Coils
(1982) with Fred SABERHAGEN; A Dark Traveling (1987), a juvenile; The
Black Throne (1990) with Saberhagen, a RECURSIVE fantasy starring Edgar
Allan POE; The Mask of Loki (1990) with Thomas T. THOMAS; The Graveyard
Heart (1964 AMZ; 1990 chap dos); Bring Me the Head of Prince Charming
(1991) with Robert SHECKLEY; Gone to Earth (coll dated 1991 but 1992);
Flare (1992) with Thomas, describing a deadly solar flare; Way Up High
(1992 chap); Here There be Dragons (1992 chap); A Night in the Lonesome
October (1993); If at Faust You Don't Succeed (1993) with Robert Sheckley;
Wilderness (1994) with Gerald Hausman, associational.As Editor: Nebula
Award Stories Three (anth 1968).About the author: "Faust & Archimedes"
in The Jewel-Hinged Jaw: Notes on the Language of Science Fiction (coll
1977) by Samuel R. DELANY; Introduction by Ormond Seavey to the 1976
GREGG PRESS printing of THE DREAM MASTER; Roger Zelazny (1980) by Carl
B. YOKE; Roger Zelazny: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography (1980)
by Joseph L. Sanders; A Checklist of Roger Zelazny (1990 chap) by Christopher
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