This year, Laguna has published HRONIKE AMBERA: TOM I, an omnibus including the first two novels in Roger Zelazny‘s Chronicles of Amber — DEVET PRINČEVA AMBERA (NINE PRINCES IN AMBER) and PUŠKE AVALONA (THE GUNS OF AVALON). Here’s the synopsis…
Šestostruki dobitnik nagrade Hugo i trostruki dobitnik nagrade Nebula.
Kultni serijal u novom prevodu zbog kojeg možemo da kažemo da su „Hronike Ambera“ prvi put adekvatno predstavljene.
Serijal Hronike Ambera je klasik fantastike. Sastoji se od deset delova objavljivanih između 1970. i 1991. godine. Ovaj tom sadrži prva dva romana: Devet prinčeva Ambera i Puške Avalona.
Amber je jedini stvaran svet, a svi ostali svetovi njegovi su odrazi – tek Senke, kojima pripadnici kraljevske loze Ambera mogu da barataju, da ih menjaju, kreću se među njima i možda ih i stvaraju. Kraljevsku porodicu, međutim, rastržu ljubomora i sumnja. Nestanak patrijarha Oberona samo je još pojačao međusobne sukobe i trvenja. Presto je ostao prazan, naslednik nije proglašen i čini se da bi ga ma ko od pretendenata mogao prigrabiti za sebe.
Hronike počinju na Zemlji u Senkama – našoj Zemlji – u bolnici, gde se jedan čovek oporavlja od automobilske nesreće. Pati od amnezije, ali svejedno ga progone sećanja na jedan grad i teraju ga da istražuje: ko je, šta je, kako je tu dospeo i šta se zapravo dešava.
Here’s the English-language synopsis…
Amber, the one real world, wherein all others, including our own Earth, are but Shadows.
Amber burns in Corwin’s blood. Exiled on Shadow Earth for centuries, the prince is about to return to Amber to make a mad and desperate rush upon the throne. From Arden to the blood-slippery Stairway into the Sea, the air is electrified with the powers of Eric, Random, Bleys, Caine, and all the princes of Amber whom Corwin must overcome.
Yet, his savage path is blocked and guarded by eerie structures beyond imagining; impossible realities forged by demonic assassins and staggering horrors to challenge the might of Corwin’s superhuman fury.’ to ‘Awakening in an Earth hospital unable to remember who he is or where he came from, Corwin is amazed to learn that he is one of the sons of Oberon, King of Amber, and is the rightful successor to the crown in a parallel world.
The Chronicles of Amber series has also recently been published in China (ten individual volumes) and Poland (as two omnibus editions)…
Zeno represents Roger Zelazny in translation, on behalf of the Zelazny Estate.