The trump picture of Corwin is executed in a subtly different style-and has features very similar to Roger Zelazny's.

Humans linked to machines are found in Pohl and Kornbluth's Wolfbane ( 1959 ) and Roger Zelazny's Creatures of Light and Darkness ( 1968 ).

Additionally, Roger Zelazny's fantasy series, The Chronicles of Amber, features a labyrinth, called " the Pattern ", which grants those who walk it the power to move between parallel worlds.

Merlin plays a modern-day villain in Roger Zelazny's short story " The Last Defender of Camelot " ( 1979 ), which won the 1980 Balrog Award for short fiction and was adapted into an episode of the television series The Twilight Zone in 1986.

* In the Roger Zelazny's 1978 novel The Chronicles of Amber: The Courts of Chaos prince Corwin encounters Ygg ( a nick from Yggdrasil ), a tree who speaks and is planted on the border between Order and Chaos, between Amber and Courts of Chaos

* Typhon is one of the gods or superhumans in Roger Zelazny's Creatures of Light and Darkness, where he appears with and is related to various Egyptian deities.

Some fans have had a rather negative response to Betancourt's writing style and lack of characterization, and consider his work to be more of fan fiction, but Betancourt states that one of his primary motivations for writing the new books was to keep Roger Zelazny's books and stories alive and in print and to prevent them from fading into obscurity, much like how other authors have extended the stories and ongoing popularity of Robert E. Howard's Conan, Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes series.

* Roger Zelazny's Visual Guide to Castle Amber by Roger Zelazny and Neil Randall ( 1988 )

In Roger Zelazny's novel Lord of Light, set on a world where humans with vastly advanced technology have set themselves up as the gods of Hinduism, Nirriti the Black is one of their enemies.

Stackpole contributed one of the four stories in Roger Zelazny's shared world anthology Forever After, published by Baen Books in 1995.

# Roger Zelazny's Alien Speedway: Clypsis ( 1987 )

In the book Sign of Chaos ( 1987 ), part of Roger Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber, the protagonist encounters a Bandersnatch.

* The Chronicles of Amber: Four-hour miniseries based on Roger Zelazny's 10-volume series, scripted by Richard Christian Matheson, with Tom Patricia of Patriarch Pictures as executive producer.

Often metafiction figures for only a moment in a story, as when " Roger " makes a brief appearance in Roger Zelazny's The Chronicles of Amber.

With a painting by George Gibbons on the August 1952 issue, F & SF introduced a wraparound cover, used most effectively by Hannes Bok for his illustration of Roger Zelazny's " A Rose for Ecclesiastes " ( November 1963 ).

The overall setting: a family of feuding dimension hopping immortal lords, as well as the specific plot of the first book: wherein an amnesiac immortal lord must travel from Earth to another dimension to regain his powers, bears striking similarities to Roger Zelazny's Amber series.

* Roger Zelazny's science fiction novel Doorways in the Sand contains a poem dedicated to Lobachevsky.

* Roger Zelazny's 1993 novel, A Night in the Lonesome October, gets its title from this poem, though the book seems to draw little else from Poe.

In 1996, he wrote two three-part comic book adaptations of Nine Princes in Amber and The Guns of Avalon, the first two books in Roger Zelazny's " Amber " series.

The goddess Ratri is a minor character in Roger Zelazny's science fiction novel Lord of Light, who encounters and aids the protagonist in his battle against the other gods.

Corwin, a Prince of Amber, is the main character in the first five books of Roger Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber.

Conrad, also known as Karaghiosis, the protagonist of Roger Zelazny's ... And Call Me Conrad ( also known as This Immortal ), which won the 1966 Hugo Award for Best Novel, is partially inspired by this character.

* 1928 Alibi ( dramatised by Michael Morton from the novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd )

In terms of a rudimentary chronology, Poirot speaks of retiring to grow marrows in Chapter 18 of The Big Four ( 1927 ), which places that novel out of published order before Roger Ackroyd.

The novel is still among the most famous of all detective novels: Edmund Wilson alludes to it in the title of his well-known attack on detective fiction, " Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?

He appeared on the West End in 1928 in the play Alibi which had been adapted by Michael Morton from the novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.

In the novel Man Plus by Frederick Pohl, an able-bodied astronaut, Roger Torraway, is surgically altered in order to augment his fragile human body and allow him to function in the harsh climate of Mars.

In the final hunt for Ralph at the end of the novel, Roger is armed with " a stick sharpened at both ends ," indicating his intentions of killing Ralph and offering his head as a sacrifice to the " beast ".

* 2010: The Congo River is a central element in the 2010 novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, El sueño del celta ( The Dream of the Celt ), a fictionalisation of episodes in the life of the Irishman Roger Casement.

The novel tells the story through a fictional first-person narrator by the name of Roger Byam, based on actual crew member Peter Heywood.

* Henry's Court is described in some detail in James Blish's historical novel concerning Roger Bacon, Doctor Mirabilis.

However, when Roger Lancelyn Green asked him how a lamp post came to be standing in the midst of Narnian woodland, Lewis was intrigued enough by the question to attempt to find an answer by writing The Magician's Nephew, which features a younger version of Professor Kirke from the first novel.

He managed to finish close to three quarters of the novel, and then halted work once again after Roger Green, to whom Lewis showed all his writing at the time, suggested there was a structural problem in the story.

The first paperback edition was an Ace Books double novel along with Roger Dee's An Earth Gone Mad ; The Stars, Like Dust was retitled The Rebellious Stars for this edition without Asimov's consent.

:* 1928: Alibi adapted from the novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

:* 1932: The Fatal Alibi adapted from the novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

:* 1932: The Fatal Alibi adapted from the novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

In the novel James has only a few friends-Roger Peter Davies, whom he nicknames " Jolly Roger " and later names his ship after ; and his pet Electra, a fatally poisonous spider.

Roger Zelazny makes a brief cameo appearance in the book as a guard in a dungeon, smoking a pipe and working on a novel which may or may not be The Chronicles of Amber itself.

* In Roger Caillois ' short novel Pontius Pilate ( 1961 ), Pilate is portrayed as a vacillating colonial administrator who, during the day after Jesus ' arrest, receives advice from his wife, from Judas Iscariot and from a Chaldaean friend who has amassed an immense knowledge of the world's various religions.

In the 1993 novel, The Death and Life of Superman by Roger Stern, Jonathan and Martha Kent fly from the Metropolis airport to the Great Bend airport and proceed to drive to Smallville, which would put Smallville somewhere in central Kansas.

Jack of Shadows is a novel combining elements of both science fiction and fantasy written by American author Roger Zelazny.

The Illustrated Roger Zelazny includes a short story, " Shadowjack ", that is a prequel to the events of the novel.

This was written by Roger Zelazny and details aspects of the character's history that were not in the novel or in the short story of the same name.

In his infamous essay attacking detective fiction, Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd, American critic Edmund Wilson decried this novel as dull, overlong and far too detailed ; describing how he skipped a lot of the prose about bell-ringing ( quote: " a lot of information of the kind that you might expect to find in an encyclopaedia article on campanology "), and also large amounts of Sayers ' focal sleuth character, " the embarrassingly named " Lord Peter Wimsey.