--- In [email protected], "salyavin808" <fintlewoodlewix@...> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], turquoiseb <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "salyavin808" <fintlewoodlewix@> > > wrote: > > > > > > Didn't know he wrote fiction though, but I never liked fantasy > > > novels anyway, if I even get a sniff of a wizard I'm off - It's > > > sci-fi for me if I'm feeling speculative. > > > > Just as a question, did you ever read any of > > Roger Zelazny's Chronicles Of Amber series? > > > > That's got Woo, and the existence of wizards > > of a sort, but it's also got a lot of phwam! > > in my opinion. > > > > The series started as an act of will. Roger > > had caught a bad case of writer's block, and > > couldn't get a damned thing to come out. So, > > being a martial artists and a warrior type > > himself, he set himself a task to help him > > snap out of it. > > > > He would write a whole novel in one month. > > (It usually took him six months to a year.) > > The novel was to be a throw-away. He didn't > > plan to do anything with it. He was using > > it to inspire him to write more serious > > books. > > > > The result was "Nine Princes In Amber," a > > novel that went on to be the first of a > > series of ten novels that, collectively, > > are Zelazny's biggest sellers. Go figure. > > Something to be said for spontaneity perhaps? > > I have got one book of his but it has yet to be > read. It came out as part of a Masters of Sci-Fi > selection. Chosen by contemporary writers, it has > everyone from HG Wells and John Wyndham through what > I consider the golden age, people like Bob Silverberg > and Brian Aldiss, to Iain Banks and KW Jetter. > > They released a book a month for ages and I discovered > some real gems, people I never would have heard of. > I don't know why but new sci-fi does nothing for me - > or the local library have a very poor buyer - but it seems > like I pick up and put down an awful lot of books after > one chapter. But something like 'Flowers for Algernon' > 'The Earth Abides' or 'Ringworld' and I'm hooked to the > last page. > > 'Lords of Light' will get a look in sometime and I shall > take a look at the Amber series just in case I'm missing > something. > > Here's a list of them so far: > > http://www.gollancz.co.uk/2013/02/the-sf-masterworks/
That's quite a list. I've read many of them, but not all. Interesting that Philip K. Dick has 14 entries on the list.
