Publication Order of The Chronicles of Amber Books
Nine Princes in Amber
1970
The Guns of Avalon
1972
Sign of the Unicorn
1975
The Hand of Oberon
1976
The Courts of Chaos
1978
Trumps of Doom
1985
Blood of Amber
1986
Sign of Chaos
1987
Knight of Shadows
1989
Prince of Chaos
1991
Publication Order of Francis Sandow Books
Isle of the Dead
1969
To Die in Italbar
1973
Publication Order of Wizard World Books
Changeling
1980
Madwand
1981
Publication Order of Dilvish Books
The Changing Land
1981
Dilvish, the Damned
1982
Publication Order of Millennial Contest Books
Bring Me the Head of Prince Charming (With: Robert Sheckley)
1991
If at Faust You Don’t Succeed (With: Robert Sheckley)
1993
A Farce to Be Reckoned With (With: Robert Sheckley)
1995
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
This Immortal
1966
The Dream Master
1966
Lord of Light
1967
Creatures of Light and Darkness
1969
Damnation Alley
1969
Jack of Shadows
1971
Today We Choose Faces
1973
Doorways in the Sand
1976
Bridge of Ashes
1976
Deus Irae (With: Philip K. Dick)
1976
Roadmarks
1979
Eye of Cat
1982
Coils (With: Fred Saberhagen)
1982
A Dark Traveling
1987
The Black Throne (With: Fred Saberhagen)
1990
The Mask of Loki (With: Thomas T. Thomas)
1990
Flare (With: Thomas T. Thomas)
1992
A Night in the Lonesome October
1993
Wilderness (With: Gerald Hausman)
1994
Donnerjack (With: Jane Lindskold)
1997
Psychoshop (With: Alfred Bester)
1998
Lord Demon (With: Jane Lindskold)
1999
The Dead Man’s Brother
2009
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
Four for Tomorrow / A Rose for Ecclesiastes
1967
The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth, and Other Stories
1971
My Name Is Legion
1976
The Illustrated Roger Zelazny
1978
The Last Defender of Camelot
1980
Unicorn Variations
1983
Frost & Fire
1989
Gone to Earth
1992
Manna from Heaven
2003
Seven Tales in Amber
2019
Publication Order of The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny Books
Threshold
2009
Power & Light
2009
This Mortal Mountain
2009
Last Exit to Babylon
2009
Nine Black Doves
2009
The Road to Amber
2009
Publication Order of Children’s Books
Here There Be Dragons
1992
Way Up High
1992
Publication Order of Poetry Collections
Poems
1974
When Pussywillows Last in the Catyard Bloomed
1980
To Spin Is Miracle Cat
1981
Hymn to the Sun: An Imitation
1996
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
Roger Zelazny’s Visual Guide to Castle Amber (With: Neil Randall)
1988
About Roger Zelazny
Roger Zelazny (1937-1995) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, best known for “The Chronicles of Amber”, a fantasy series of ten novels, and for the novel “Lord of Light”. He won six Hugo Awards and three Nebula Awards, and much of his fiction places figures from mythology in modern or future settings.
Zelazny was born in Euclid, Ohio, the only child of a Polish immigrant father and an Irish American mother. He took a BA in English at Western Reserve University in 1959 and an MA at Columbia University in 1962, where he specialised in Elizabethan and Jacobean drama. From 1962 to 1969 he worked for the US Social Security Administration in Cleveland and then Baltimore, writing in the evenings. His first professional science fiction stories appeared in the magazines Amazing and Fantastic in August 1962, and on 1 May 1969 he left his job to write full time.
His first novel, “This Immortal” (1966), had been serialised the year before as “...And Call Me Conrad” and tied with Frank Herbert’s “Dune” for the 1966 Hugo Award for best novel. “Lord of Light” (1967), set on a colonised planet whose rulers have taken on the roles of the Hindu gods, won the same award in 1968. Other novels draw on Egyptian mythology (“Creatures of Light and Darkness”) and Navajo mythology (“Eye of Cat”).
The Amber books fall into two sets of five. The first, published between 1970 and 1978, follows Prince Corwin of Amber and his search for his lost father, Oberon. The second, published between 1985 and 1991, follows Corwin’s son Merlin, a wizard and computer expert; its opening volume, “Trumps of Doom”, won the 1986 Locus Award for fantasy novel. Zelazny’s shorter series include the Francis Sandow, Wizard World and Dilvish books, and the Millennial Contest trilogy written with Robert Sheckley.
“Damnation Alley” was loosely adapted as a film in 1977. Zelazny lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico, for twenty years and died there on 14 June 1995, aged 58. Two novels he left unfinished, “Donnerjack” (1997) and “Lord Demon” (1999), were completed by the novelist Jane Lindskold, and “The Dead Man’s Brother”, a thriller written in 1971, was first published in 2009. He was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2010.
