Series
Merlin (Amber)
Roger Zelazny · 5 novels · 1985–1991
Roger Zelazny's second Amber sequence follows Merlin, son of the first series' narrator Corwin, as he's drawn into the same multiverse-spanning conflict between Amber and Chaos from a new angle, complicated by his own mixed heritage and enemies from his past. Beginning with Trumps of Doom, the five books continue the Amber Chronicles' central conceit -- a single true world casting infinite reflected 'shadows,' including our own Earth -- and are meant to be read after the original five Corwin novels.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
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Stats
By decade
- 1980s4
- 1990s1
Shape
5 novels
1 author · completed series
reads like:fantasypolitical intrigueparallel universetimeless or unspecifiedadventurousadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 100% 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
- Trumps of Doomdarkest · calmest
- Prince of Chaosbrightest · most intense