Amber is the one real world, of which all others — including our own Earth — are but Shadows.

The second novel in Zelazny's The Chronicles of Amber Series. This book is also a part of The Corwin Saga. Across the worlds of Shadow, Corwin, Prince of blood royal, heir to the throne of Amber, gathers his forces for an assault that will yeild up to him the crown that is rightfully his. But, a growing darkness of his own doing threatens Corwin's plans, an evil that stretches to the heart of the perfect kingdom itself where the demonic forces of Chaos mass to annihilate Amber and all who would rule there.

About the Author & Reader

Roger Zelazny – HUGO & NEBULA AWARD-WINNING author
Roger burst onto the SF scene in the early 1960s with a series of dazzling and groundbreaking short stories. He won his first of six Hugo Awards for Lord of Light, and soon after produced the first book of his enormously popular Amber series, Nine Princes in Amber. In addition to his Hugos, he went on to win three Nebula Awards over the course of a long and distinguished career. He died on June 14, 1995.

Praise for The Chronicles of Amber

“...these fantasy adventures are [Zelazny’s] best work, they have earned him a whole new audience
by virtue of their elegance, humor, literacy, vivid action and lightly applied but complex
background of tarot, alternate worlds, Olympian gods, and magic.”
—Publishers Weekly