Authorial Appearance
Roger Zelazny (or possibly one of his doppelgängers) makes a cameo in his own novel as "Roger" — a cadaverous, grinning, pipe-smoking guard in Amber's dungeon who is presently writing a "philosophical romance shot through with elements of horror and morbidity." Some of the themes of the series as a whole are shadows, doubles and the nature of reality.
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