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Country
  
United States

Publication date
  
1986

Originally published
  
1986

Preceded by
  
Trumps of Doom

Genre
  
Fantasy literature

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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Hardcover)

Author
  
Roger Zelazny

Followed by
  
Sign of Chaos

Cover artist
  
Ned Dameron

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Series
  
The Chronicles of Amber

Publisher
  
Arbor House (trade); Underwood-Miller (limited)

Similar
  
Roger Zelazny books, The Chronicles of Amber books, Speculative fiction books

Blood of Amber is the Locus Award nominated second book in the second Chronicles of Amber series by Roger Zelazny, and the seventh book overall.

Contents

Plot summary

Merlin escapes from the crystal cave, and decides to gain leverage over Luke by rescuing his mother from the Keep of the Four Worlds. He spars with the sorcerer who now controls the keep, and who seems to know him. He escapes with the petrified Jasra, and returns to Amber where an unusual Trump summoning imprisons him in the Mad Hatter's tea party.

Release details

The book was published simultaneously in a limited edition of 400 signed and numbered copies, by Underwood/Miller and also a trade edition, by Arbor House.

Trivia

  • When Merlin first spies the Keep of the Four Worlds, he describes it as "an amazingly huge and complex structure, which I immediately christened Gormenghast." "Gormenghast" is the name of the sprawling, crumbling fortress from Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast trilogy.

    • Publication information

  • Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. p. 672. 

    • References

    Blood of Amber Wikipedia
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