silver

The juxtaposition of high fantasy descriptive style with noir dialogue was claimed to be deliberate. The only Zelazny I recall reading was Unicorn Variations. It had a few interesting ideas but I didn't like the packaging style or ideology. His writing neither aged well nor matured imo. An example short hack-job from 1995:

http://www.baenebooks.com/chapters/1439133018/1439133018___3.htm

::my eyes roll up forever::