There was a period, from 1961-1967, when Roger Zelazny was magic, and every new story of his was an event.
The heart-wrenching "A Rose for Ecclesiastes" (written October 1967) was nothing like the passionate "Graveyard Heart," which was completely different from the mind blowing "The Ides of Octember," serialized in Amazing as "He Who Shapes," which was altogether different from the post-nuclear holocaust romp, "Damnation Alley," published in.
He was a tremendously variable writer.
There was a period, from 1961-1967, when Roger Zelazny was magic, and every new story of his was an event