Lost Zelazny novel found

[_ocelott_]

The late Roger Zelazny, a prolific fantasy and science fiction writer and winner of three Nebulas as well as six Hugos, is releasing a new book.

This is not the first posthumous publication for Zelazny, but it is a complete unpublished novel, not a fragment or a series of unfinished notes (a la Wheel of Time). The Dead Man's Brother is a mystery/

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[mecooper]

Wow, the Chronicles of Amber was a major influence on me when I read it in *cough cough*. I wonder how his stuff would read today?

I was never so disappointed as when the light went on and I realized that several of my favourite authors from my teenage years were really really sexist. I cringe now when I remember how avidly I read Piers Anthony's fantasy and sf series and I won't even go into Heinlein. I know that books are written in the context of the authors time and social mores, but sometimes, there really isn't a good excuse. There's a topic for you, ocelott - are there books from your youth that when you revisit them, you find out that they were either sexist, racist, horrifically incorrect or just really really badly written (that breaks my heart when I realize that a book I loved was really crappily written)? Can you forgive the book or the author - or is it ruined for you forever after.

[_ocelott_]

Hmm, that's a great topic, actually. Over the past year or so I revisited some of the books I was obsessed over in my early years (between 8 and 12 or thereabouts), and was shocked at how much crap I read.

I still give allowances to CS Lewis, though. Narnia may be sexist, but the man wrote his stories in the 1950s. Given the society he lived in, I'll cut him a little slack.