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Roger Zelazny…One of the Grandest Masters of Science Fantasy has yet to disappoint me and Jack of Shadows is no exception. Along with Jack Vance (to whom this book was an homage), there is no author better at stuffing story into less than 200 pages. This GEMtastic example weighs in a svelte 142 pages and contains a full serving of juicy plot with zero filler fat.
Jack of Shadows takes place on a world that does not rotate and so half of the planet is always sun side and the other half of the pla ...more
Jack of Shadows takes place on a world that does not rotate and so half of the planet is always sun side and the other half of the pla ...more
Aug 01, 2012
Erich Franz Linner-Guzmann
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What a terrific read of science and magic. Roger Zelazny is the supreme master at mixing the two together. Roger Zelazny truly is fantastic at making someone despicable actually likeable. The Hero, more likely the anti-hero (it is up to you to choose) of the story, Jack is a character most would think to dislike, but simply for Zelazny work of masterful science/fantasy fiction, and in the first few chapters and especially at the end he makes you end up rooting for Jack, the Jack of Shadows! This ...more
I’ve found that the best way to sum up this book is, “It’s a Roger Zelazny novel.”
For anyone who doesn’t really know what that means, I’ll try to explain.
With a world where one half is perpetually day, and the other is night, the populations of both are similarly segregated. Daytime has normal humans and a technological civilization, and nighttime has sorcerers who come back from the dead an unspecified number of times. Magic and technology only work their respective halves of the world, and onl ...more
For anyone who doesn’t really know what that means, I’ll try to explain.
With a world where one half is perpetually day, and the other is night, the populations of both are similarly segregated. Daytime has normal humans and a technological civilization, and nighttime has sorcerers who come back from the dead an unspecified number of times. Magic and technology only work their respective halves of the world, and onl ...more
Nov 17, 2010
James
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it was amazing
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