Blood of Amber

Blood of Amber

Dust-jacket illustration from the trade edition published by Arbor House
Author	Roger Zelazny
Cover artist	Ned Dameron (limited)
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	The Chronicles of Amber
Genre	Fantasy novel
Publisher	Arbor House (trade); Underwood-Miller (limited)
Publication date	1986
Media type	Print (Hardcover)
Pages	215 pp
ISBN	0-87795-829-7 (trade); ISBN 0-88733-058-4 (limited)
OCLC	13361327
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 19
LC Class	PS3576.E43 B58 1986
Preceded by	Trumps of Doom
Followed by	Sign of Chaos

Blood of Amber is the Locus Award nominated^[1] second book in the second Chronicles of Amber series by Roger Zelazny, and the seventh book overall.

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.

References

1. "1987 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-09-27.

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.

External links

• Blood of Amber at Worlds Without End