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A film adaptation was first planned in 1998, with Mark Canton and Akiva Goldsman producing and Ed Neumeier adapting. [3] In 2016, the creators of the Walking Dead TV series announced that they were producing a TV adaptation of The Chronicles of Amber , [ 4 ] and in 2023 it was announced that Stephen Colbert will be an executive producer, via ...
The Chronicles of Amber is a fantasy series written by Roger Zelazny chiefly in ten books published from 1970 to 1991. It features a great variety of characters from a myriad parallel universes (including "our" Earth universe). All universes spiral out on a continuum, which are more closely related to one end, Amber (and its history and ...
Within the novels, much of the action centers on Corwin and his family as they plot against one another conspiring to become the King of Amber. In the first book of the series, Nine Princes in Amber, Corwin is identified as the eldest heir to the throne who has a legitimate claim. The matter of succession is hotly (and frequently) contested ...
Betancourt's Dawn of Amber series, which took its name from the title of the first volume, is a prequel to Zelazny's work, taking place centuries or millennia before Nine Princes in Amber. It is told from the point of view of Corwin's father Oberon, and like Zelazny's novels, the series was narrated in first person.
The Guide is a reference work providing biographical detail on the Amber characters and a walk-through guide to Castle Amber itself. John Betancourt has written a series of novels set in the Amber multiverse set several centuries before Nine Princes in Amber. Betancourt's series tells the story of Corwin's father Oberon, a wizard and shapeshifter.
Roger Joseph Zelazny (May 13, 1937 – June 14, 1995) [2] was an American fantasy and science fiction writer known for his short stories and novels, best known for The Chronicles of Amber.
Nine Princes in Amber: 1970 Roger Zelazny: Multiverse in which The Chronicles of Amber take place; two worlds of opposed chaos and order of which all others are merely "shadows" Amtor: Pirates of Venus: 1934 Edgar Rice Burroughs: A fictionalised version of the planet Venus as depicted in the Venus series of novels featuring the character Carson ...
There is the Pattern in Rebma (Amber spelled backward), a reflected version of Amber beneath the sea; there is one in the ghost-city reflection of Amber in Tir-na Nog'th; there is the Primal Pattern, the one true Pattern that is higher on the reality scale than even Amber; Corwin's own Pattern, off in Shadow; and even imperfect versions of the ...