Roadmarks

By: Roger Zelazny

Narrated by: Matt Godfrey

The Road runs from the unimaginable past to the far future, and those who travel it have access to the turnoffs leading to all times and places - even to the alternate time-streams of histories that never happened. Why the Dragons of Bel'kwinith made the Road - or who they are - no one knows. But the Road has always been there and for those who know how to find it, it always will be!

Dizzying in its virtuosity, gripping in its kaleidoscopic treatment of time, character, and action, Roadmarks is a dazzling achievement.

About the author: Roger Zelazny was a science-fiction and fantasy writer, a six-time Hugo Award winner, and a three-time Nebula Award winner. He published more than 40 novels in his lifetime. His first novel, This Immortal, serialized in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction under the title ...And Call Me Conrad won the Hugo Award for best novel. Lord of Light, his third novel, also won the Hugo award and was nominated for the Nebula award. He died at age 58 of cancer. Zelazny was posthumously inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2010.

©2019 Roger Zelazny (P)2021 Recorded Books, Inc.

Finally finished!

I started reading ( ACTUALLY reading ) this book approximately 35 years ago. I lost it about three fourths of the way through it. I swore I would find another copy and finish the damned thing, buuut , one thing lead to another…. anyway, it never happened. I had nearly forgotten the thing, until I stumbled upon it the other night and purchased it! It was as much fun as I remember it being! Zelazny isn’t Tolstoy, to be sure, but he is a helluva good time! I like how this book gave us a preview of the PDA long before they were dreamed of by regular folks ( y’know, the squares… ). Great read, um, listen! I wholeheartedly recommend this book! Have fun!

a road story without boundaries

I remember reading this years ago. it is an excellent tale of sci-fi fantasy with vision yet uncomplicated enough to be relaxing

Science Fiction Classic

Prefiguring elements of the better-known Amber series, this imaginative tale of a traveler on a highway that stretches through time at the center of a road system that maps to probabilistic alternate histories is a classic. The narrator is excellent.

Reader lacks understanding of the material

This is one of Zelazny's most delightful books. I've read it often enough that I just rolled my eyes at the lousy French accent; but the mechanical voice of the sophisticated AI was one of many poor choices in vocal characterization that made this whole listen kind of a wince.

Time travel highway

Roger Zelzany’s Roadmarks is a unique story about a highway that travels through time. Exit ramps can take one to different points in history. Changing the past creates different exits for the future. The main character is running guns to Greeks to change the result of an ancient battle. At the same his son is try-ing to find and others are trying to kill him.

Zelanzy attempted a novel structure for the novel. All chapters are either labelled ‘one’ or ‘two.’ One chapters are the main character serving as the narrator. Two chapters are with other people and jump around in terms of the story plot. This is a tough listen.

The narration is decent with acceptable character distinction. Pacing is smooth.