This Immortal
Ratings11
Average rating3.5
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Ratings11
Average rating3.5
“Vivid and elliptical... If you've ever asked yourself what would have happened if Philip Marlowe had been Odysseus... here is a clue to the answer.” —NEW WORLDS THE HUGO AWARD-WINNING FIRST NOVEL EVER WRITTEN BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE CHRONICLES OF AMBER! Conrad Nomikos has a long, rich personal history that he'd rather not talk about. And, as Arts Commissioner, he's been given a job he'd rather not do. Escorting an alien grandee on a guided tour of the shattered remains of Earth is not something he relishes-especially when it is apparent that this places him at the center of high-level intrigue that has some bearing on the future of Earth itself! "Roger Zelazny [was] the compleat New Wave author, so daring he could pen nothing without perturbing some creaky icon... so strong a writer, so moving in the sweep of his plots and imagery."—David Brin
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Don't even know what to say about this. Books should follow the basic rules that makes for a pleasant reading, this book does not follow them.
Read 25 / 5:42 8%
I read this long ago in my youth, but I found that I remembered very little on re-reading it.
Good story, somewhat surrealistic but with lots of action and a nice mystery to resolve.
Zelazny was a real craftsman with words. As I read this book, at times I felt like he was channeling Delany. Not surprising I suppose as they were contemporaries and must have influenced each other back in the 1960s.
