No Roger Zelazny ebooks?

[Fbone]

Originally Posted by bgalbrecht

From what I've heard (and therefore should be taken with a large grain of salt), late in Roger Zelazny's life, he left his wife to be with a much younger woman. He did not change his will and his literary estate went to his ex-wife. As Hell hath no Fury like a woman scorned, I suspect there will be few reprints or ebook releases as long as she is in control of his literary estate, as there is no better revenge on an author than oblivion through unavailability.

That's what I heard also. He hadn't divorced Judy. They only separated and he was living with his young lady when he died of renal failure and cancer. Judy is about 73 years old and possibly estranged from her 3 kids.

[Ken Maltby]

Originally Posted by bgalbrecht

Hopefully anyone creating a professionally published version of their ebooks will not do what Norman Spinrad did, and publish them without copyediting them. I got a copy of Mindgames from Amazon that was so bad that there were conversations where you couldn't tell who was speaking even from the context. Walter Jon Williams also started with pirated editions when he self-published his out of print works, but he copyedited his.

There are some out there including "Lord of Light". Just Google.

Luck;
Ken

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by shootingMaNs

I'm out of work for a while with a foot injury, so I've spent my time reading...alot. I've been jonesing for Roger Zelazny, particularly Lord of Light and Creatures of Light and Darkness, but apparently they are not available as ebooks. Anyone have any idea why this is? I've got a paper copy of Lord of Light, but I lost my copy of Creatures of Light and Darkness a few years ago, and I would love to re-read it.

I agree, I want to re-read all his stuff....as ebooks!

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by fjtorres

Sounds like there is a shameful story there somewhere.
Alas, not uncommon.

Originally Posted by bgalbrecht

From what I've heard (and therefore should be taken with a large grain of salt), late in Roger Zelazny's life, he left his wife to be with a much younger woman. He did not change his will and his literary estate went to his ex-wife. As Hell hath no Fury like a woman scorned, I suspect there will be few reprints or ebook releases as long as she is in control of his literary estate, as there is no better revenge on an author than oblivion through unavailability.

Sounds about right....

[Calenorn]

Originally Posted by jgaiser

Not making excuses for the publishers, but most/a lot of back catalogs don't have a digital file to create the ebooks from. It would mean OCRing and editing and I think most publishers don't see enough profit.

To me, "any profit" would be "enough profit."

Guess that's why I'm not in business!

[Gazella]

Originally Posted by shalym

Please don't send an email to his son. This is from Trent's facebook page:


http://www.facebook.com/trentzelazny/info

I don't understand how it could be offensive and disrespectful?

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by Gazella

I don't understand how it could be offensive and disrespectful?

Because he says so. Clearly you've never been involved in one of these epic family battles.

[John F]

Originally Posted by jgaiser

Not making excuses for the publishers, but most/a lot of back catalogs don't have a digital file to create the ebooks from. It would mean OCRing and editing and I think most publishers don't see enough profit.

But the editing wouldn't be much work? You just need to OCR and compare the original (paper) to the new digital for OCR errors, and have them mark up things like chapters, bold, ... (I'm assuming this could be cheaply outsourced). Then you need to package it into an ebook (I'm guessing this would be a minimal effort). Sounds simple to me.

Could we get more of Feist's work done also.

[Gazella]

Originally Posted by kennyc

Because he says so. Clearly you've never been involved in one of these epic family battles.

And what's up with you.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by Gazella

And what's up with you.

you apparently.

As I said, you clearly have never been involved in a family dispute which results in this kind of thing.

[jmilica]

From Amazon forum

You might try Judith C Zelazny, Santa Fe, NM 87507 as the estate holder. Married to R. Z. at time of death though separated. Since he died relatively young, he may not have changed his will, and she may have the estate in New Mexico, as she was his legal wife at the time. If you google her, you will come up with address and phone.

http://www.amazon.com/forum/top%20re...TxQAOK1DP3Y86G
There is also link where Pimlico Agency is stated as contact for his works.
http://www.sfwa.org/hidden-pages/est...t-information/

[Gazella]

Originally Posted by kennyc

you apparently.

As I said, you clearly have never been involved in a family dispute which results in this kind of thing.

No fortunately I have not. What I don't understand is why you felt offended by my question.

[teh603]

Originally Posted by Gazella

No fortunately I have not. What I don't understand is why you felt offended by my question.

Trust me, you don't know what its like having to cut off half the family, especially when a money dispute is involved.

Finding out they gave their kid the exact same name as you so they can try to steal your parents' estate after you thought the whole thing was settled with the deaths of the previous generation, just kicks it straight into the Twilight Zone.

[kennyc]

And regardless of that even, the fact that he put the "Please do not contact me..." on his facebook is reason enough to respect his wishes.

[AnemicOak]

Originally Posted by shalym

Please don't send an email to his son. This is from Trent's facebook page:


http://www.facebook.com/trentzelazny/info

Shari

Thanks for the info. If he'd had that message posted on the contact page of his website I wouldn't have suggested contacting him.