I loved these books as a teenager when they first came out. They have not aged well but as an example of some really fun and groundbreaking stuff that hardly anyone else was doing at the time, a collection of interesting tropes mixed up in a new way (portal fantasy! time travel sorta! the multiverse! dynastic drama!), it's quite interesting. I reread them all a couple of years ago.
Corwin is strangely modern in this weird USA 1970s sort of way -- you would think he would not be so obviously that as he has lived for a long time. But the amnesia trope was a fav of mine back then (and kind of still is if it's done well) and in this case it was an interesting way to get the info to the reader about the worldbuilding -- the reader and Corwin could discover it all together.
Zelazny was a very interesting New Wave SFF writer, despite the blind spots with sexism and things like smoking.
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Date: 9/18/22 12:11 pm (UTC)Corwin is strangely modern in this weird USA 1970s sort of way -- you would think he would not be so obviously that as he has lived for a long time. But the amnesia trope was a fav of mine back then (and kind of still is if it's done well) and in this case it was an interesting way to get the info to the reader about the worldbuilding -- the reader and Corwin could discover it all together.
Zelazny was a very interesting New Wave SFF writer, despite the blind spots with sexism and things like smoking.