The Chronicles of Amber
Roger Zelazny · 1970
Corwin wakes on Earth with amnesia and gradually recovers the memory that he is a prince of Amber, the only real world; all others are Shadows. Zelazny's multiverse remains one of fantasy's most elegant conceptual structures.
The case against
Zelazny improvised as he went, and it shows: plot turns hinge on royal siblings withholding information for no reason except that the next book needed a twist. The first five novels coast on Corwin's voice; the five Merlin books that follow coast on nothing. Women in Amber mostly exist to scheme or be rescued.
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