He suspects he is being overmedicated, so he escapes his room. He is one of nine men who might rule Amber, if he can fight his way past the armies of his older brother Eric.Ĭarl Corey wakes in a medical clinic with little knowledge of who he is or how he got there. He escapes and investigates, discovering the truth, piece by piece: he is really Prince Corwin, of Amber, the one true world of which the Earth is just a shadow. In the story, Carl Corey wakes up in a secluded New York hospital with amnesia. The first (Doubleday hardcover) edition of the novel is unusually rare the publisher pulped a significant part of the original print run in error when the order went out to destroy remaining copies of Zelazny's older book Creatures of Light and Darkness. It was first published in 1970, and later spawned a computer game of the same name. Nine Princes in Amber is a fantasy novel by American writer Roger Zelazny, the first in the Chronicles of Amber series.
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