Series
Jack of Shadows
Roger Zelazny & Lawrence Watt-Evans · 1 novel · 3 short stories · 1971–2017
Roger Zelazny's Jack of Shadows (1971) is a single novel set on a tidally locked world split between a permanently lit hemisphere ruled by science and a permanently dark one ruled by magic. Its protagonist, Jack of Shadows, draws his power from shadow itself and is nearly helpless in full light or full darkness but formidable wherever shadows fall; the book follows his quest to recover a lost artifact, the Key called Kolwynia, and the power -- and responsibility -- that comes with finding it.
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Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
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By decade
- 1970s2
- 1980s0
- 1990s0
- 2000s1
- 2010s1
Shape
1 novel · 3 short stories
2 authors
reads like:fantasyquestssecondary worldtimeless or unspecifiedadventurousadult
Mood
Too few works here carry a tone to place this series.
the catalog’s own centre, waiting for company1 of 4 works carry a tone