On his website, A Song of Ice and Fire author George RR Martin has a page ‘In Memoriam’ to author Roger Zelazny, who died in 1995. Martin begins, ‘He was a poet, first, last, always. His words sang. He was a storyteller without peer. He created worlds as colourful and exotic and memorable as any our genre has ever seen. But most of all, I will remember his people. Corwin of Amber...’
Now The Walking Dead producer Robert Kirkman and his production partner Dave Alpert are to bring Zelazny’s ten novel long Chronicles of Amber saga to television, a project designed to fill the demand for epic fantasy left when A Game of Thrones ends in 2018. The novel series began with Nine Princes in Amber in 1970, and has sold over 15 million copies worldwide.