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Which fictional universe do you wish you lived in?
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Yup, as a peon Culture then Trek. If I get to be a main, Zelazny's Amber, nigh immortal and can travel to any universe I can imagine? Fuck yes.
Haven't heard of Zelazny’s Amber. You recomend?
similarly, the ending of
spoiler
The Good PlaceThere's a million fantasy worlds i'd love to visit, but few i'd want to spend my life in.
Hell yeah, give it a go. Not everyone's cup of tea, but if you like it you tend to love it. It's a product of the 70s, and Zelazny has a particular prose, economical, broad brush strokes that leaves the reader to fill in the details with imagination, each reading unique.
Some dislike the second quintology. I think it's not as good as the first and faded, along with the author's life, at the end, but I liked it and bad Zelazny is IMO better than most out there. G.R.R. Martin and Neil Gaiman (yeah, I know, dick, but competent writer) both cite him as a major influence, and he has all the Hugos etc.
If you want to try something else by him first, A Night in Lonesome October is special, one chapter a day. I (most years) and others start on Oct 1 and read a chapter a day, does not disappoint.