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The Chronicles of Amber
Complete Amber Sourcebook
494 pages Harper Voyager; 1st edition (January 1, 1996) English
494 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1996
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October 23, 2014
Laid out like a concise encyclopedia, this has very detailed entries for all the major & most of the minor players & events in the entire Amber universe. I'm not positive of the accuracy of all of it. Unfortunately, some of the stuff I've read says it isn't without problems. Apparently there isn't ANY correspondence in Zelazny's papers about this, either. That's not to say Zelazny didn't deal with Krulik on this for certain, but Zelazny had copies of most correspondence & this supposedly took a lot, yet there is none.
It is interesting, but I'll look at it more completely on a re-read of the chronicles at some point. As it was, I flipped through it & read up on random points & characters. It is a fun companion book.
It is interesting, but I'll look at it more completely on a re-read of the chronicles at some point. As it was, I flipped through it & read up on random points & characters. It is a fun companion book.
September 24, 2016
A very thorough guide to one of the great fantasy series. It's set out like an encyclopaedia and fleshes out details sparsely given in the original novels through a judicious use of conjecture and speculation (or just simple "making shit up").
It begins with the conceit that this is a guide written by a member of the Amber nobility and this is carried all the way through (and if you dip into it -instead of reading it cover-to-cover as I did - it probably comes over a little less twee than it sounds). There's a lot of detail here (sheet music and a guide to speaking Thari) but, in the absence of some sort of authorial blessing in the acknowledgments it's hard to tell how authentic it really is. However, the summary of events from the books provides a wonderful recap if you - like me - get a little baffled and bothered by who's currently allied with whom as the series goes on (the Merlin books are particularly guilty of this).
I would call this one of the better sourcebooks that are out there. For any series.
September 7, 2009
An excellent reference companion to the Amber books of Roger Zelazny.
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