 Dust-jacket illustration from the first edition. | |
| Author | Roger Zelazny |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Amelia S. Edwards |
| Language | English |
| Series | The Chronicles of Amber |
| Genre | Fantasy |
| Publisher | Doubleday |
Publication date | June 1970 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 175 |
| ISBN | 978-0-380-01430-9 |
| OCLC | 88150 |
| Followed by | The Guns of Avalon |
Nine Princes in Amber is a fantasy novel by American writer Roger Zelazny, the first in the Chronicles of Amber series. It was first published in 1970, and later spawned a computer game of the same name. The first (Doubleday hardcover) edition of the novel is unusually rare; the publisher pulped a significant part of the original print run in error when the order went out to destroy remaining copies of Zelazny's older book Creatures of Light and Darkness.[1]
In the story, Carl Corey wakes up in a secluded New York hospital with amnesia. He escapes and investigates, discovering the truth, piece by piece: he is really Prince Corwin, of Amber, the one true world of which the Earth is just a shadow. He is one of nine men who might rule Amber, if he can fight his way past the armies of his older brother Eric.
- ^ "'...And Call Me Roger': The Literary Life of Roger Zelazny, Part 3", by Christopher S. Kovacs. In: The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny, Volume 3: This Mortal Mountain, NESFA Press, 2009.