Phlogiston Forty Four: An Interview with Roger Zelazny

Great read. Some of his shorter one off stories are fantastic. Amber, he just got lazy and left far too many loose ends, started hares, got lost playing d&d with the reader. And then sold the franchise to John Bettancourt which is a de facto admission of defeat.

But he definitely could, and did write amazing lyrical stuff when he chose to.

I think he wanted to write a Hemingway fishing story set in space and he kind of managed it (the doors of his face the lamps of his mouth) and he references poetry a lot which matches his original desires in writing.