Crow Caw Music Works put out a CD of music based on Jack of Shadows. You can listen to the tracks from that CD in Real Audio, along with some other miscellaneous clips, and find a link to the official website. The CD is cheap, the site is humorous and well-designed, and the CD complements the tone of the book very nicely. Definitely check it out.
The band Hawkwind has recorded three songs based on Zelazny's works. As you
can see by the lyrics, "Damnation Alley"
and "Jack of Shadows" are closely related to Zelazny's works of the same name, while "Lord of Light" bears a
much looser resemblance. Hawkwind has a very complicated succession of releases and rereleases and compilations
and best-ofs, so the following is probably an incomplete listing of CDs on which the songs appear:
Steven Brust's A Rose For Iconoclastes is a folk music-ish CD with no relation to Zelazny except that the title is a take-off of "A Rose For Ecclesiastes." Worth checking out anyway.
Thomas Park wrote a soundtrack to Deus Irae, consisting of six tracks for a total of 33 minutes.
Dr. James Lentini composed the orchestral piece "Dreamscape", inspired by Zelazny's poem of the same name. Available is a Real Audio recording from 01994. Commision: University of South Carolina Conductors Institute Premiere: July 20, 1994 at the University of South Carolina by the Conductors Institute Orchestra Commission for MMC recordings. Recorded by Krakow Philharmonic, Jerzy Swoboda, conductor, December 1994. A CD with the song is available for purchase.
Many one-offs and filk songs by various bands and artists are based on Zelazny works. See nocifer's site for a detailed list.
A filk song not on nocifer's list: "Champs Élysées" (hear mp3 or read lyrics) by Eben Brooks Rosenberger and Allison Lonsdale.
Audio Books
The National Library Service for the Blind & Physically Handicapped has over 50 Zelazny works available in braille and audio format. You can search for works by Zelazny, but can only obtain the works through a local library service, and only if you are in fact visually disabled.
The following have been commercially released as audio tapes. All titles are unabridged and read by Roger unless otherwise specified. See Patrick's audiotape page for more details on publication companies, ISBNs, etc.
Sunset Productions was the primary publisher of the books on tape. Sunset was bought out by Americana Publishing in early 2002, who now sell all of the Amber books. Abridged books are $18 each. Unabridged copies of Nine Princes in Amber, The Guns of Avalon, The Hand of Oberon, and The Courts of Chaos are $24 each (4 tapes per book). Sign of the Unicorn weighs in at 5 tapes for $30. Full contact information for ordering:
Ann Edenfield
Americana Publishing, Inc.
Vice President of Sales
303 San Mateo NE, Suite 104A
Albuquerque, NM 87108
1-888-883-8203 x157
1-505-255-6189 Fax
ann@americanabooks.com
These are works by other people, read by Roger. I am unsure whether these are abridged or not.
In case you missed it on the main page under interviews, here's another link to the Writer's Voice interview of Zelazny from 1973, in audio format.
Video
Damnation Alley was produced as a very bad movie back in 1977. You can see some of the basic information at the Internet Movie Database.
A movie based on Nine Princes in Amber might be in the works. See Scott's NPiA movie page for the scraps of details that are available.
The SciFi channel is producing Amber as a four hour miniseries, one of several upcoming projects. We'll have to see how well such a short treatment can pull off the complexity of Amber...
Trent Zelazny and Michael Weaver cowrote a script for A Night in the Lonesome October. The summary from Michael Weaver's now defunct screenplay website page says:
This information is current as of July 2002.A Night in the Lonesome October - Written with Trent Zelazny - High budget - The pantheon of horror-fiction characters run amuck in the English countryside. Male (dog) lead.
Adapted from the novel "A Night in the Lonesome October" by Roger Zelazny
Currently under review at Jim Henson Pictures
"The Last Defender of Camelot" was adapted to an episode of The Twilight Zone. From the New Twilight Zone, by way of Patrick, the details are: