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** Following on from the immortality thing, accidentally or unwillingly becoming a god in some way. "Lord of Light" is preoccupied with this idea, for instance.
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* GreyAndGrayMorality: "The Chronicles of Amber" have a pretty bleak and ambiguous moral landscape... after all, if you can access any arbitrary multiverse and infinite copies of the same people, you begin to look on the lives of "mere mortals" as fairly cheap. Corwin is at least callous enough to human life that, when amnesiac, he apparently fought as a German officer during WWII[[note]]he does seem to understand that the Nazis were evil and that "following orders" doesn't excuse their atrocities, given his line about Eichmann, but really, that's a low bar to clear[[/note]], but grudgingly, he'd put himself in harm's way to save his home and (some of) his family members. His claim to the throne is not necessarily the only or most legitimate one, although his father seemingly endorsed it, and it's just as easy to read him as the VillainProtagonist as to read him as the AntiHero.
** Very few major characters in the Amber series are less than a few thousand years old.
** In "Lord of Light," the main characters are all so old that a whole society worships them as if they actually were the Hindu gods and goddesses they styled themselves after.
** In "Lord of Light," the main characters are all so old that a whole society worships them as if they actually were the Hindu gods and goddesses they styled themselves after.
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* VenusIsWet: ''The Doors Of His Face, The Lamps Of His Mouth'' is one of the last straight examples of Venus being depicted as an ocean world. By the time of writing (it published in 1965), science was beginning to discover the harsh conditions on the real Venus, but the story is meant to hearken back to earlier depictions, and the tone of the work is akin to 40's and 50's pulp sci-fi.
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* VenusIsWet: ''The Doors Of His Face, The Lamps Of His Mouth'' is one of the last straight examples of Venus being depicted as an ocean world. By the time of writing (it published in 1965), science was beginning to discover the harsh conditions on the real Venus, but the story is meant to hearken back to earlier depictions, and the tone of the work is akin to 40's and 50's pulp sci-fi.sci-fi but with a whiff of irony.
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* BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil: The pantheon Zelazny created for ''Isle of the Dead'' and ''To Die in Italbar'' balances creative against destructive gods. In the Amber mythos, the Balance ostensibly hinges between Chaos and Law (Amber), though the battlelines are often blurred both dramatically and philosophically, especially with the reveal that [[spoiler:the royal family of Amber descend from the royal family of Chaos]], and that the Pattern which imposes order on the multiverse is not [[spoiler:the one in Amber but in another reality nearby, which is merely reflected in Amber.]]
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** The pantheon Zelazny created for ''Isle of the Dead'' and ''To Die in Italbar'' balances creative against destructivegods. gods.
** In the Amber mythos, the Balance ostensibly hinges between Chaos and Law (Amber), though the battlelines are often blurred both dramatically and philosophically, especially with the reveal around the middle of the first series that [[spoiler:the royal family of Amber descend from the royal family of Chaos]], and that the Pattern which imposes order on the multiverse is not [[spoiler:the one in Amber but in another reality nearby, which is merely reflected in Amber.]]
** The pantheon Zelazny created for ''Isle of the Dead'' and ''To Die in Italbar'' balances creative against destructive
** In the Amber mythos, the Balance ostensibly hinges between Chaos and Law (Amber), though the battlelines are often blurred both dramatically and philosophically, especially with the reveal around the middle of the first series that [[spoiler:the royal family of Amber descend from the royal family of Chaos]], and that the Pattern which imposes order on the multiverse is not [[spoiler:the one in Amber but in another reality nearby, which is merely reflected in Amber.]]
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* CriminalCravesLegitimacy: In ''Today We Choose Faces'', the Mafia has successfully gone legitimate and is now a publicly traded company on Wall Street.
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* CreatorBacklash: he wrote "To Die in Italbar" to fulfill a contractual obligation for his publisher, who declined to publish it; many years later he polished it and resubmitted it, where it was finally published. He later said it was his worst novel and wished he could erase it from existence.
* CriminalCravesLegitimacy: In ''Today We Choose Faces'', the Mafia has successfully gone legitimate and is now a publicly traded company on Wall Street.
* CriminalCravesLegitimacy: In ''Today We Choose Faces'', the Mafia has successfully gone legitimate and is now a publicly traded company on Wall Street.
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He began during the early days of the NewWaveScienceFiction movement, in the mid 1960s, and while he never identified with that movement, he did share its interest in literary technique. He wrote in a style that veered wildly between the [[PurpleProse flowery prose]] of high fantasy and the [[BeigeProse mundane prose]] of everyday life--the former to give his readers a sense of wonder; the latter to draw them in and make them feel a part of the story, and, often, to add a touch of humor. Together with New Wave authors like Creator/MichaelMoorcock, he helped redefine modern fantasy.
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He began during the early days of the NewWaveScienceFiction movement, in the mid 1960s, and while he never identified with that movement, he did share its interest in literary technique. He wrote in a style that veered wildly between the [[PurpleProse flowery prose]] of high fantasy and the [[BeigeProse mundane prose]] of everyday life--the former to give his readers a sense of wonder; the latter to draw them in and make them feel a part of the story, and, often, to add a touch of humor. Together with New Wave authors like Creator/MichaelMoorcock, he helped redefine modern fantasy.
fantasy, and influenced many younger fantasy authors like Creator/NeilGaiman, who dedicated Literature/AmericanGods to Zelazny and Kathy Acker.
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* CriminalCravesLegitimacy: In ''Today We Chooses Faces'', the Mafia has successfully gone legitimate and is now a publicly traded company on Wall Street.
* BeneficialDisease: Mr. H in "To Die in Italbar" has every disease and while largely asymptomatic, is dangerously contagious, but can achieve a kind of balance among his diseases to cure individuals of their sicknesses--at the cost of becoming more contagious to others.
* BeneficialDisease: Mr. H in "To Die in Italbar" has every disease and while largely asymptomatic, is dangerously contagious, but can achieve a kind of balance among his diseases to cure individuals of their sicknesses--at the cost of becoming more contagious to others.
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* CriminalCravesLegitimacy: In ''Today We Chooses Choose Faces'', the Mafia has successfully gone legitimate and is now a publicly traded company on Wall Street.
* BeneficialDisease: Mr. H in "To Die inItalbar" Italbar," as a result of being blessed/cursed by a goddess, has every disease and while largely asymptomatic, is dangerously contagious, but can achieve a kind of balance among his diseases to cure individuals of their sicknesses--at the cost of becoming more contagious to others.
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* WalkingWasteland: in "To Die in Italbar," the protagonist, Mr. H, has every human disease, but they keep each other in perfect check. He can cure people of disease with a touch, but in order to use this power he upsets the balance and becomes contagious. He travels from planet to planet trying to do more good than harm, but leaves a trail of sickness in his wake, especially as people begin to revere him as a holy figure.
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* WalkingWasteland: in "To Die in Italbar," the protagonist, Mr. H, has every human disease, but they keep each other in perfect check.check most of the time. He can cure people of disease with a touch, but in order to use this power he upsets the balance and becomes contagious. He travels from planet to planet trying to do more good than harm, but leaves a trail of sickness in his wake, especially as people begin to revere him as a holy figure.
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** Immortality and longevity are particularly common themes, with many of his characters having achieved immortality in various way; they commonly ponder the meaning of unending life and life experiences beyond the normal human capacity.
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* BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil: The pantheon Zelazny created for ''Isle of the Dead'' and ''To Die in Italbar'' balances creative against destructive gods. In the Amber mythos, the Balance ostensibly hinges between Chaos and Law (Amber), though the battlelines are often blurred both dramatically and philosophically.
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* BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil: The pantheon Zelazny created for ''Isle of the Dead'' and ''To Die in Italbar'' balances creative against destructive gods. In the Amber mythos, the Balance ostensibly hinges between Chaos and Law (Amber), though the battlelines are often blurred both dramatically and philosophically.philosophically, especially with the reveal that [[spoiler:the royal family of Amber descend from the royal family of Chaos]], and that the Pattern which imposes order on the multiverse is not [[spoiler:the one in Amber but in another reality nearby, which is merely reflected in Amber.]]
* BeneficialDisease: Mr. H in "To Die in Italbar" has every disease and while largely asymptomatic, is dangerously contagious, but can achieve a kind of balance among his diseases to cure individuals of their sicknesses--at the cost of becoming more contagious to others.
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* VenusIsWet: ''The Doors Of His Face, The Lamps Of His Mouth'' is an early example of a deliberately retro Venus, with oceans containing monstrous fish.
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* VenusIsWet: ''The Doors Of His Face, The Lamps Of His Mouth'' is one of the last straight examples of Venus being depicted as an early example ocean world. By the time of a deliberately retro writing (it published in 1965), science was beginning to discover the harsh conditions on the real Venus, but the story is meant to hearken back to earlier depictions, and the tone of the work is akin to 40's and 50's pulp sci-fi.
*WalkingWasteland: in "To Die in Italbar," the protagonist, Mr. H, has every human disease, but they keep each other in perfect check. He can cure people of disease withoceans containing monstrous fish.a touch, but in order to use this power he upsets the balance and becomes contagious. He travels from planet to planet trying to do more good than harm, but leaves a trail of sickness in his wake, especially as people begin to revere him as a holy figure.
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* BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil: The pantheon Zelazny created for ''Isle of the Dead'' and ''To Die in Italbar'' balances creative against destructive gods. In the Amber mythos, the Balance ostensibly hinges between Chaos and Law (Amber), though the battlelines are often blurred both dramatically and philosophically.
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* NoodleIncident: In "Isle of the Dead", the final test for worldscaping, which Green-Green failed. It is not described, but Sandow considered only a formality, while Marling assures him it was not.
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* NoodleIncident: In "Isle of the Dead", the final test for worldscaping, which Green-Green failed. It is not described, but Sandow considered it only a formality, while Marling assures him it was not.
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* NoodleIncident: In "Isle of the Dead", the final test for worldscaping, which Green-Green failed. It is not described, but Sandow considered only a formality, while Marling assures him it was not.
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