Series
Chronicles of Amber (Corwin)
Roger Zelazny · 5 novels · 1970–1978
The Chronicles of Amber opens with Nine Princes in Amber, in which Roger Zelazny's amnesiac narrator Corwin discovers he is a prince of Amber, the one true world of which every other reality, Earth included, is merely a reflection. Across five novels, his effort to recover his memory pulls him into his fractious family's quarrels and shifting schemes for Amber's throne. Zelazny's estate later authorized a separate prequel cycle by another writer, but this original five-book Corwin arc stands as a complete story on its own.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
Chronicles of Amber (Corwin) at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1970s5
Shape
5 novels
1 author · completed series
reads like:fantasypolitical intrigueparallel universetimeless or unspecifiedadventurousadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 80% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book5 of 5 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Sign of the Unicorndarkest
- The Guns of Avalonbrightest · most intense
- Nine Princes in Ambercalmest