There's a lot of good Zelazny delight in the Second Chronicles, but I feel like many of the macro decisions in it undercut things I greatly valued in the First Chronicles.
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E.g., the existence of the Logrus and the sentience of the Pattern moves Amber out of "unique cosmology" to "another mere set of warring gods" and that diminishes the First series.
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that's not unreasonable, though i do feel that the existence of the Logrus was implied strongly enough in the Corwin Cycle. and you're not wrong that them being sapient is a loss, worldbuilding-wise. which is part of why i think that's a red herring
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tl;dr "the Pattern and Logrus were never sapient at a level that we could directly communicate with and the appearance of them being so is a result of them being manipulated by Brand and Deirdre's transformed consciousnesses" is not even particularly off the wall for Roger
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I have to surgically split myself into many pieces so I can properly die on pretty much every Zelazny related hill no matter how opposed to one another they are. I want to kiss it, spit on it, it's my favorite, it's horrible, I agree with you and you and you, it's the bestworst.
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So I guess you won't really be TOO lonely, you'll have at least a fraction of me. Then again you'll be dead so what do you care.
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i've never been dead so who knows, i could care a lot
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Dear god this is the worst of the nightmare afterlife scenarios: being forced to exist on the philosophical hill on which you died. Possibly alone, save for my left leg.
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this... is actually incredibly close to the (obnoxiously oversold) actuality that afterlife myths are a metaphor for
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Help this got too real I want out
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Ok. I'll read them.
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Not alone. I like them just fine. Also the short stories afterwards. Also the epic thing Zelazny was headed towards. It hurts that I’ll never see what it was, but I like everything about where it pushes my thoughts.
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I like them.
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dude, it's ok to enjoy shlock tier stuff sometimes. it's even ok to believe it isn't shlock, as long as you don't try to convince anyone else that it is.
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I like them!
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