Jack of Shadows

Name: Jack of Shadows
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Roger Zelazny
ISBN: 9798350890167

Author: Roger Zelazny, Joe Haldeman

Narrator: Eric Jason Martin

Unabridged: 5 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/15/2024

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction, Action & Adventure

Synopsis

In a world half of light, half of darkness, where science and magic strive for dominance, there dwells a magical being who is friendly with neither side. Jack, of the realm of shadows, is a thief who is unjustly punished. So he embarks on a vendetta. He wanders through strange realms, encountering witches, vampires, and, finally, his worst enemy: the Lord of Bats. He consults his friend Morningstar, a great dark angel. He is pursued by a monstrous creature called the Borshin. But to reveal any more would be to spoil some of the mind-boggling surprises Jack of Shadows has in store. First published in 1971and long out-of-print, Jack of Shadows is one of fantasy master Roger Zelazny's most profound and mysterious books.

About Roger Zelazny

Roger Zelazny was a science fiction and fantasy writer, a six-time Hugo award winner, and a three-time Nebula award winner. He published more than forty novels in his lifetime. His first novel This Immortal, serialized in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction under the title "...And Call Me Conrad," won the Hugo award for best novel. Lord of Light, his third novel, also won the Hugo award and was nominated for the Nebula award. He died at age 58 from colon cancer. Zelazny was posthumously inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2010.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Joseph on June 09, 2018

One of Zelazny's standalones; a dark and finely-faceted jewel of a book. (Oh, OK, fine. The world is fixed; the East Pole points ever towards the sun, and the eastern hemisphere is forever in daylight and ruled by science. The West Pole is in eternal darkness, and the Darkside is ruled by magic. In b......more

Goodreads review by Shadowdenizen on June 28, 2017

Time to te-read some Roger Zelazny stuff. Though I re-read the Amber series periodically, I've been very lax about revisiting the other stuff of this top-tier fantastic author! 😯 Post Re-read: I remember reading this AGES ago, and I was just disappointed that it wasn't Amber. In retrospect, as an old......more

Goodreads review by Jim on August 04, 2016

2Aug2016 - currently rereading with the Sci-fi and Heroic Fantasy group here: [URL not allowed] This was one of the first Zelazny books I read & it's still fantastic. The characters aren't complex, but I think this is done on purpose. The only ones that much time is spent on are......more

Goodreads review by Mike (the Paladin) on June 06, 2017

A hard to find novel, but worth it if you can track it down. My copy fell apart long ago, and should I find a new one I'll grab it. In a world frozen with a dark side and a light side (science predominates on the light side magic on the dark) one man functions in both worlds... The dark side of this w......more

Goodreads review by Manny on August 25, 2010

Jack keeps getting killed - he's that kind of guy. Every time it happens, he wakes up in the Dung Pits of Glyve, which are about as pleasant as they sound. He always discovers that he's clutching a little pebble. He throws away the pebble, and laboriously makes his way back to what passes for civili......more