Free Jack of Shadows Books Online

Itemize Books Supposing Jack of Shadows

Original Title:	Jack of Shadows
ISBN:	0451159764 (ISBN13: 9780451159762)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel (1972), Locus Award Nominee for Best Novel (1972)

Jack of Shadows

Roger Zelazny

Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 236 pages

Rating: 4 | 5789 Users | 283 Reviews

Identify Based On Books Jack of Shadows

Title	:	Jack of Shadows
Author	:	Roger Zelazny
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 236 pages
Published	:	May 2nd 1989 by Signet (first published 1971)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Science Fiction. Fiction. Science Fiction Fantasy. Speculative Fiction. Magic. Adventure

Ilustration In Pursuance Of Books Jack of Shadows

For the plot description I shamelessly plagiarized the first two and a half sentences of the official book description. The Earth no longer rotates. Science rules the dayside of the globe. Magic rules the World of Night. Jack of Shadows was a thief whose magic was strongly connected with shadows. In other words, he could not do any magic in complete absence of them. He was caught in the beginning of the book and executed. Being a supernatural being he had several lives, just like an ordinary cat. He came back and sought revenge. I am a big fan of Zelazny. I keep saying that even his minor efforts deserve 3 stars. This looks like one of them. The beginning was quite good; it slowed down by about one third in the book, but still remain decent until the second half. At that point I had to ask myself, "Who the heck wrote this part and why did the Grand Master of science fiction and fantasy let him/her destroy his work???" The very end became quite good - probably the best part, but at that time it was way too late. Add to this the fact that during the bad part of the book I stopped caring about Jack and his fate and you will understand why I gave one of my all-time favorite science fiction writers only 3 stars this time. It is still not a waste of time by any means, but please if you are not familiar with Zelazny do not start your acquaintance with him with this novel. It has excellent ideas, but the execution really lacked. At this point I have to recycle the first image I used here to show my face when I finished this novel: Boy, was I grumpy!

Rating Based On Books Jack of Shadows

Ratings: 4 From 5789 Users | 283 Reviews

Article Based On Books Jack of Shadows

3 StarsI'm not sure about this one. The story was great and the combination of fantasy elements with science fiction felt new and different. But i had a problem with the storytelling. The story jumped around quite a lot and sometimes I had to read a few pages of the chapter to even start to understand what was currently happening. That and the writing style (which was just not for me) made me not really care for the characters because I couldn't really immerse myself into the story. The plot had

One of Zelazny's standalones; a dark and finely-faceted jewel of a book.(Oh, OK, fine. The world is fixed; the East Pole points ever towards the sun, and the eastern hemisphere is forever in daylight and ruled by science. The West Pole is in eternal darkness, and the Darkside is ruled by magic. In between, of course, is a narrow strip of twilight. Shadowjack is a thief (the greatest in all of the Darkside? well, certainly, he has an opinion on the subject) who draws power from shadows (as

Roger ZelaznyOne of the Grandest Masters of Science Fantasy has yet to disappoint me and Jack of Shadows is no exception. Along with Jack Vance (to whom this book was an homage), there is no author better at stuffing story into less than 200 pages. This GEMtastic example weighs in a svelte 142 pages and contains a full serving of juicy plot with zero filler fat. Jack of Shadows takes place on a world that does not rotate and so half of the planet is always sun side and the other half of the

For the plot description I shamelessly plagiarized the first two and a half sentences of the official book description. The Earth no longer rotates. Science rules the dayside of the globe. Magic rules the World of Night. Jack of Shadows was a thief whose magic was strongly connected with shadows. In other words, he could not do any magic in complete absence of them. He was caught in the beginning of the book and executed. Being a supernatural being he had several lives, just like an ordinary

What a terrific read of science and magic. Roger Zelazny is the supreme master at mixing the two together. Roger Zelazny truly is fantastic at making someone despicable actually likeable. The Hero, more likely the anti-hero (it is up to you to choose) of the story, Jack is a character most would think to dislike, but simply for Zelazny work of masterful science/fantasy fiction, and in the first few chapters and especially at the end he makes you end up rooting for Jack, the Jack of Shadows! This

Storyline: 3/5Characters: 2/5Writing Style: 2/5World: 3/5I always look forward to reading Zelazny. I never seem to regret finishing his stories even though I rarely enjoy them all the way through. He's one of the more creative and versatile fantasy/sc fi writers I've come across, and this picaresque fantasy was everything I expected it to be. "Slapdash" carries with it the connotation of carelessness but more specifically refers to the haphazard character of a work. I'm convinced that slapdash

Jack of Shadows is one of Roger Zelazny's earliest novels, although at the time of its publication the author was already well known and highly regarded in the SF/F industry for his Hugo Award winning novels This Immortal and Lord of Light. Jack of Shadows feels in many ways like a throwaway idea that Zelazny had while working on his Amber series (Nine Princes in Amber was published a year earlier) that he decided to work quickly into publishable form. Published first in 1971, the whole book