The Guns of Avalon
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The Guns of Avalon is
Plot summary
Corwin has escaped the dungeons of Amber, where he was imprisoned by his hated brother Eric, who had seized the throne of Amber. All of Corwin's siblings believe that guns cannot function in Amber, as
Reception
Avram Davidson gave the novel a lukewarm review, complaining that he did not "feel for any of [its] characters the slightest empathy, sympathy, or even osteopathy" and concluding that "there is nothing outrageously bad in [this] book of magic, intrigue, and warfare, but very little that is very good".[1]
Deleted scene
Roger Zelazny wrote an explicit sex scene (by 1970s American publishing standards) between Corwin and Dara and was amused when the book's editor asked him to remove it so that sales to libraries would not be jeopardized.[2] That deleted scene has never appeared with the novel but has been printed for the first time in The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny, Volume 3: This Mortal Mountain.[3]
Adaptation
A three-part comic adaptation was done by Terry Bisson in 1996.[4][5]
References
- F&SF, April 1973, p. 37
- ^ "...And Call Me Roger": The Literary Life of Roger Zelazny, Part 3, by Christopher S. Kovacs. In: The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny, Volume 3: This Mortal Mountain, NESFA Press, 2009.
- ^ The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny, Volume 3: This Mortal Mountain, NESFA Press, 2009
- ^ Thomlinson, Norris (2004-05-23). "Amber comics". Roger Zelazny Page. Archived from the original on 2008-06-07. Retrieved 2010-05-14.
- ^ "Author Information: Terry Bisson". Internet Book List. Archived from the original on 2010-11-28. Retrieved 2010-05-14.
Further reading
- Levack, Daniel J. H. (1983). Amber Dreams: A Roger Zelazny Bibliography. San Francisco: Underwood/Miller. pp. 39–41. ISBN 0-934438-39-0.