Roger Zelazny: Difference between revisions

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Zelazny started writing during a fashion in sci-fi/fantasy for psychological focus and experimentalism known as the "New Wave" <ref>simplifying the movement greatly.</ref>. His early short story ''He Who Shapes'' describes a doctor able to enter the dreams of his patients by technological means to confront and ease their neuroses. The story moves right out of conventional territory, the very narrative voice itself being progressively overwhelmed by the deep tides of myth and symbology that the overreaching doctor founders in.

Unusually for a writer interested in deep psychology, Zelazny tended to steer away from the "destructive testing" of characters. Rather than habitually showing us how characters come apart under pressure, his characters have integrity. This maturity is perhaps also part of their willingness to engage with their enemies in extended and meaty conversation where other writers would give up and put in a fight scene.

 

 

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=== Roger Zelazny's works with their own trope pages include: ===

* ''[[Damnation Alley]]''

* ''[[Lord of Light]]''

* ''[[Doorways in The Sand]]''

 

* [[Humanity's Wake]]: ''For a Breath I Tarry'' is set in a post-human world inhabited by our robotic servants. They regard mankind as godlike figures from a golden age.

* [[I Have Many Names]]: A series of short stories, collected in ''My Name Is Legion'', about a secret agent whose real name even his employer didn't know, whose aliases were always the names of obscure-but-notable historical figures. (In a break from the usual procedure, the historical figure always had nothing whatever to do with the job at hand; for instance, on his first appearance he was undercover as an engineer, but using a name whose original owner was a doctor.)

* [[Like a Badass Out of Hell]]

* [[The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday]]: ''Psychoshop'', a remarkably mobile shop {{spoiler|where you pawn elements of your mind!}}