Seven Tales in Amber
collection 2020 Chronicles of Amber
Record
| First published | 2020 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | collection |
| Canon status | |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781515439783 |
Synopsis
Seven Tales in Amber is a posthumous 2020 collection gathering seven short stories that Roger Zelazny wrote over several decades, all set within the Amber multiverse he created for his Chronicles of Amber novels. The book carries an introduction by Warren Lapine. Of the seven pieces, five form a connected sequence of events that takes place after the events of Prince of Chaos, the final novel of the second Amber quintet, making them the chronologically latest material set in that world. Because Zelazny died before compiling or completing further Amber novels, the collection stands as a way of extending glimpses of the family of Amber, its shifting alliances, and its layered reality of shadow worlds beyond where the main novel sequence left off, drawing together scattered short fiction that had appeared individually across earlier decades into a single volume.
Where it sits
- Universe: Chronicles of Amber
- Series: not part of a registered series (standalone work within its universe)
- Author: Roger Zelazny
Notes
- Collects six Amber short stories written 1985-1996: "Prolog to Trumps of Doom" (1985), "The Salesman's Tale" (1994), "The Shroudling and the Guisel" (1994), "Blue Horse, Dancing Mountains" (1995), "Coming to a Cord" (1995), "Hall of Mirrors" (1996, Zelazny's last Amber work). Does not include the unfinished fragment "A Secret of Amber" (co-written with Ed Greenwood, published posthumously 2005 in Amberzine #12-15). Correction: the story is titled "Coming to a Cord", not "Coming to a Cusp", no source supports the latter title.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within Chronicles of Amber (standalone work): position 11 of 11: previous Prince of Chaos (1991)
Sources
← Chronicles of Amber dossier · All universes
Part of the Library. Fields without an identified source are omitted, never guessed.