American - Writer | May 13, 1937 - June 14, 1995
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.
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I enjoy travel very much. I've taken the kids to Europe when there were just the two boys.
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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.
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The first time I met Harlan Ellison, we were both unpublished young punks in Cleveland, Ohio.
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I got the idea for my novel 'Lord of Light' when I cut myself shaving just before I was to go on a panel at a convention. I had to go out there with this big gash in my face. I remember that I thought, 'I wish I could change bodies.'
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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.
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I was writing 'He Who Shapes' when I was working for the Social Security Administration in Baltimore.
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In any novel I write, I have in my mind several things which happened in the protagonist's past which I never mention in the book.
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Space opera was the sort of story on which I grew up. When I was younger, I read heavily in pulp magazines. They were readily available in the stores.
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Robots are very tricky to design and expensive, whereas humans are cheaply manufactured. Humans can handle things with greater manual dexterity than most robots I've known.
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I have often thought of doing a story with someone either as a human being or as a robot who, by a series of stages, changes into the other end of the spectrum. By the story's end, he'd be either totally robotic or totally human, the opposite of what he once was. And possibly... bring him back again.
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