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Roger Zelazny

American Writer

Born: May 13, 1937

Died: Jun 14, 1995

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I have a fondness for technology. It's great to spend hours puttering around with mechanical things gotten from junkyards and visualizing what their use might be. Especially if you come across a gadget or tool and you don't know what it is and you try to figure it out. I'm fascinated by processes, whatever they might be. Roger Zelazny

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When you are about to die, a wombat is better than no company at all. Roger Zelazny

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I am fascinated, I suppose, by a flawed man with a streak of greatness. Roger Zelazny

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I enjoy slaughtering beasts, and I think of my relatives constantly. Roger Zelazny

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I find fantasy easier to write. If I'm going to write science fiction, I spend a lot more time thinking up justifications. I can write fantasy without thinking as much. I like to balance things out: a certain amount of fantasy and a certain amount of science fiction. Roger Zelazny

In a sense, fantasy is a freer play of the imagination. You can achieve exactly the situation you want with less groundwork, less of a need to fill in all of the background. For science fiction, I would use a lot of sources to set up, for instance, what a being from another planet would be like. Roger Zelazny

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Columbia University in 1959 had a kind of reputation that interested me. Roger Zelazny

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In the Soviet Union, you always have the feeling someone is watching you. Roger Zelazny

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The places where I have the nameless character in 'My Name Is Legion' meet his boss are real places I've been to. That works well for tax purposes, writing into my stories the places I've actually visited. Roger Zelazny

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I read Herman Hesse's 'Siddhartha' while I was writing 'Lord of Light' along with many other things. It seemed a good time to read it so I could see what he had to say about Buddha. In my first chapter, I was thinking in terms of the big battle scene in the 'Mahabarata.' It helped me in visualizing the battle in my novel. Roger Zelazny

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I do admire great essayists. I'm a particular fan of good nature writing. People like Robert Finch. I read great quantities of writing by naturalists. I've been studying the genre for years. Roger Zelazny

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