Seven Tales in Amber: Stories from the Chronicles of Amber Saga Kindle Edition

I'd read all but the greenwood piece before in Amberzines if I remember correctly but it is nice to read them consecutively in one setting as I no longer have any Amberzines sadly. Roger is one of those few authors who got me in the "soul" like Alfred Bester did. I can't recommend more reading these short stories if you haven't already if you're a Chronicles of Amber fan. Very thankful that these were finally all brought together for an inexpensive price.Makes me want to run a game of Amber Diceless RPG. I swear I probably have twenty various homebrewed and beta versions of this game that I've played since I was in high school decades ago looking at badly xerox'ed copies of the early versions of the rules and later when the two main books came out. Wish that Rebma could have been published along with the other half being the Tir mirrored so as to have two front covers with the ends meeting at the center.I wonder if anyone will ever get the rights to it again? I've heard that the spirit of the game has been carried over to Lords of Gossamer but I've only glanced at it. Nostalgia and the sense of pregnant possibility in what Roger might have made if he'd have lived longer. A sequel to Donnerjack would be on my wishlist after Amber.

Granted it's nice to finally have a version of these last Amber stories out by themselves, and some of the fan art is cool (although some of it seems apropos to nothing in there), but whoever the editor is did sort of a sloppy job: they left off the end of 'The Salesman's Tale'! For those of you who bought it and are reading it for the first time, this is what they left off (from the version in the Zelazny collection Manna from Heaven):'I wondered where all of this was going to lead. It seemed that the big picture was about to change drastically again.Glad Delwin wasn't interested in the microwave oven, though. The spell would've been a bitch to work out.'Maybe someone thought it was in bad taste, but that's the end payoff joke, for crying out loud!

A must for Zelasny's Amber series fans

If you are a Zelazny junkie -- and I am -- then this is a book you will definitely want to read. If you somehow have managed to miss Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber series -- well, all I can say for you is you better not call yourself a true SF/F fan!You know how a really good book (or series) leaves you starving for more, no matter how perfectly ended what you read was? Seven Tales In Amber is the fix that true Zelazny lovers will find satisfying. They are additional bits and pieces of character’s lives that never made it into the series itself, but that add to the whole. Can I call this a satisfying book?Well, no. Now I have to go back and reread the series -- hardly an onerous task! Still, even with the addition of Seven Tales, there can never be enough Amber for me.The caveat: You may be bewildered by Seven Tales if you’ve not read the Chronicles. Who are these people and why are they doing the things they are doing in the places they’re doing them in? Read the Chronicles! Then read Seven Tales!

Simply because these are genuine Amber stories written by the man Roger Zelazny himself, I would give this 5 stars alone. I've been wanting to read these for over a decade, and now I finally can.However, there are only 5 real stories in here, all of which are incredibly short. And this is, what 8 bucks? For a kindle edition?I get that the stories are rare, and that it was my hunger to read them that pushed me to buy this collection. But if they weren't Amber stories, the LAST Amber stories that I had yet, or will ever again, read, this would be an insulting price. It still IS an insulting price, but one that, unfortunately, you have to swallow, if you want to read these stories.So 5 stars for "it's Amber," 1 star for the absurd overcharge, and an aggregated 3 stars, because screw the publisher's greed but hooray for Amber.

Ah, what a delight, thank the publishing gods for this posthumous addition to Mr. Zelazny's legacy. As many times as I've revisited any and all of his stories over the years, always marveling at the sheer command of language and evocation of the world within, I've come away with some new thoughts each time, but to have just one more glimpse into Amber, yeah, it's like Spider Robinson saying he wanted a to read a new Heinlein so bad, he'd go to any lengths, even to writing one himself (Variable Star, also a 5 star read). I tried to ration myself, knowing that as soon as I finished these, 7 stories, I'd have the same longing, like you never get to experience your first love in quite the same way, no matter how many times you revisit it in memory..........Amber never gets old.

Ah, so bittersweet! This volume of short stories is some of the pieces that Rodger had come up with or was working on around the time of his death. It gave us glimpses of favorite characters, including Corwin, Merlin, and Luke. The stories were wonderful, but alas, much too brief.Fans of Amber will enjoy the short pieces, but it will always feel incomplete. It's a shame that we'll never know what Roger intended to do with his beloved Amber series.

One of the Greatest Sci-Fant series of all time; The Chronicles of Amber, never was completed to the mind of their author who past away before the 3rd installment of his series could be written. He _did_, however, complete 5 Short Stories which are collected in this affordable and coveted companion edition to the Amber Chronicles. The Prelude to his 2nd series (the Merlin Saga), and another tale co-written by Ed Greenwood completes this hardcover's bountiful feast for Amber aficionados. So glad to finally have these in a collected volume. Thank you Warren Lapine, your forward is as touching as it is magical !

Ties up some lose ends.

The Chronicles of Amber have been with me for many years, and it was great to see these related tales in one collection. You are much missed, Roger Zelazny.

... but they leave you wanting more that will never happen ☹There's hints of what RZ would have written for the third Chronicles of Amber, but that's all.They are good for Amber completists and I got them for a discounted price on Kindle which was worth it, I think, however, I'd have felt short changed if I'd paid the full amount.RIP Roger Zelazny, you had a great talent that is missed.

First time I ran across this book. Needless to say I snapped it up for my collection!

This small volume collects the limited amount of short fiction Roger Zelazny wrote about his most popular creation, Amber. It's a piecemeal lead-in to what, but for his death, would have been a Third Amber Cycle. The tales are interesting and suggest that a Third may have been considerably better than the utterly dismal Second Cycle, but the fact that so many of them also plug holes left by that sorry affair, and years after it was written, doesn't suggest that Zelazny would necessarily have risen to the heights his potential Third Cycle would have demanded.