He was just playing with whatever appealed to him at the time. The whole thing was.I'm reluctant to call it experimental, because that implies a more specific goal than he had. He'd jot down a neat set piece on a couple pages then forget about it for a couple months.
They were my answer."Īlong those lines, Creatures of Light and Darkness was originally something Zelazny wrote to amuse himself. As it says at the top of the page, "Where there had been darkness, I had hung my worlds. I don't use my real name here, but I don't think it would take all that much digging to figure out who I am to someone so inclined.) I write what interests me. I drive my normally sanguine wife to distraction by referring to her journal as a "paper blog", but she thinks it strange that anyone would publish personal information where everyone can see it. (And they're so looooonnng, aren't they, mom?) Blogging is a peculiar form of expression anyway, and these Zelazny posts are of little interest to those most likely to be reading them. Reviews? Recaps? Random Observations? "What Roger Zelazny means to me"? The audience for this blog is largely composed of my friends and family, most of whom don't particularly care about sci-fi author who, while renowned within the field, is not particularly well-known outside and who died fifteen years ago. I'm not sure exactly what I should call these posts about Zelazny books. Today, I'll cover Creatures of Light & Darkness.
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