- Mass Market Paperback: 215 pages
- Publisher: Avon Books (Mm); Reissue edition (September 1995)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0380896362
- ISBN-13: 978-0380896363
- Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 10.4 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 113 g
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#1,149,634 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #12 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Fantasy > Series > Amber
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From Publishers Weekly
Some fans of Zelazny's dense, brilliant writings from the '60s have been dismayed at the time and effort he has invested in his Amber series during the past 16 years. If these fantasy adventures are simple and formulaic compared with his best work, they have earned him a whole new audience by virtue of their elegance, humor, literacy, vivid action and lightly applied but complex background of tarot, alternate worlds, Olympian gods, and a magic so neat and clear that computers can learn it. In this seventh installment, the sorcerer Merlin of Amberaka Merle Corey of San Franciscolearns the identities of two would-be assassins but makes a truce with one to pursue the greater, more dangerous power beyond them. Once again, the limited plot is enlivened by Zelazny's irony, his bravura sequences (particularly a harbor visit that turns nasty in Death Alley) and his laconic sense of the incongruous (are magicians the ultimate surrealist artists?). Paperback rights to Avon; Science Fiction Book Club main selection.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Book Description
Surrounded and imprisoned by his enemies, Merle Corey, aka Merlin of Amber, is forced to place his trust in a beautiful shapeshifter in order to restore balance to his world and confronts a force that threatens Earth as well. Reissue.
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4.3 out of 5 stars (7 customer reviews)
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fantastic, May 20 1999
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Blood of Amber/the New Amber Novel! (Hardcover)
You asked for a great book and you got it! It's this one. (And the whole 10 books of the series). This book features Merlin, Lord of Chaos, and magician, who also happens to have a computer science degree from Berkeley. In this book, Merle is in the woods sleeping when he hears a threatening voice of an otherworldly creature that has appeared in the darkness that says "I am the enemy - the one you thought you would never come". Then there is a flashback while Merle remembers and philosophizes about several events in his life revolving around power. He then answers the voice in the woods, saying "It's about time". This is very Zelaznian humor which is one of the great features of these books. In addition, there is lots of great adventure. Zelazny really can write. His is an evolved writing form, far beyond his contemporaries.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Blood of Amber is one of my favourite Amber books!, April 9 1999
By Grant Anderson - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Blood of Amber (Mass Market Paperback)
Not much body to this review, but I just thought I'd say that the Amber series is one of my favourites, and I really like this book in particular. Scrof, the Dweller on the Threshold, is hilarious!
5.0 out of 5 stars
Merlin dodges death ... again, April 4 2012
By Brent Butler - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Blood of Amber (Paperback)
This is the continuation of Merlin's story in the Amber saga ... book two of the five you will read to finish the tale of his adventures.In the first book, Merlin survived multiple attempts on his life, and book two is no different. However, by this time Merlin is starting to get a handle on who some of the parties behind those attempts may be, and at least one of them is quite a surprise.
In this book, as in many, Zelazny shows a genius for making the mundane sound interesting. If he wants to give you the feel of a long and thought filled journey, he GIVES you a lengthy description of the long and though filled journey. The journey takes time for you as well as Merlin. Zelazny fills the description with tidbits of what fills Merlin's senses. He describes details both mundane and extraordinary and makes it all interesting to the reader. That's no easy task for a writer to accomplish, but it seems effortless for Zelazny.
The details of where this part of Merlin's story begins and ends is absolutely irrelevant, because you aren't going to be picking out this book apart from the rest of the series to read by itself. You MUST read all five books to get the complete story. None of the five stands on its own, and the first four generally end either on a cliffhanger or a startling revelation. So I'm not going to provide any more detail of the storyline than I've already hinted at.
After you read "The Trumps of Doom", just continue right along with this one and enjoy. Make sure you have all five books in the series at hand, because you won't want to wait even a minute from the end of one to the first chapter of the next. I feel for the people who had to wait two years to continue their read as these books were published. Actually, that group includes me for the five books of Merlin's story. I read the first five books encompassing Corwin's tale all at once, but finished them just about the time "The Trumps of Doom" was published. Luckily I read these books so long ago that I only remember the details of the plot as I read and am reminded, so it's pretty close to a new read for me. I'm lucky that my memory was not sufficient to recall any more than it did of these books! LOL
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