Roger Zelazny: In Connections To The World

Roger Zelazny: In Connections To The World Seeing what’s been happening in the United States recently, the things that people wrote about today don't really relate to the current happening is the U.S. While, back then the things authors wrote about could make connections to what was happening.Take Roger Zelazny’s writing for instance. Even though his books were science fiction books they were still something that was close to reality. People could make connections to actual happenings. Zelazny made his books connect to what was actually happening in the world, but not making it seem like the harsh reality of what it actually was. Some things were totally made up and had nothing to do with anything that was actually happening, but some things

“Roger Zelazny made his name with a group of novellas which demonstrated just how intense an emotional charge could be generated by the stock imagery of sf; the most famous of these is 'A Rose for Ecclesiastes' in which a poet struggles to convince dying and sterile Martians that life is worth continuing.” Zelazny made a way to keep his writing simple but still relative and not at the same time because he was still trying to follow the style of the genre that he wrote in. Not all of his books were this way. Some of his books were also novels. Zelazny was into role playing. Which plays a big role in his development of character’s in his science fiction/ fantasy books. This was something that had a big impact in his inspiration to write these stories and series of books. “ Those friends who saw him in role-playing games could tell you that he was a master at improvising fresh characters out of the air. If someone trusted made a suggestion that appealed to him, Roger would run with it.” Anything that appealed to Roger this included suggestions from anyone, he would take that thought into consideration and role with. This is what also made his books so popular. He took notes based off of what people who weren’t authors thought would be interesting, tinkered with the idea a bit, and turned it into something that others would thoroughly enjoy. “Seymour Jist, a retired croupier from Akron, Ohio. Roger Zelazny hired me to stand in for him in cases such as these because he’s a very reclusive individual. I met him in Cleveland about ten years ago. I lost a bet to him and I’ve been paying him back ever since.” This was just one of the ways Zelazny got character inspiration from real life people. “His response was completely off-the-cuff; but with that handful of sentences, Roger created a person who lived in the audience’s mind with a job and a history and a reason for