Get to know Zelazny better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Zelazny in a sentence
Zelazny meaning
A surname from Polish.
Using Zelazny
- The main meaning on this page is: A surname from Polish.
- In the example corpus, zelazny often appears in combinations such as: roger zelazny, zelazny part, zelazny volume.
Context around Zelazny
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 7 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 17 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Zelazny
- In this selection, "zelazny" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 21.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, roger, triggered, met, part, shuffled and died stand out and add context to how "zelazny" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and roger zelazny s creatures and by roger zelazny and remained. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "zelazny" sits close to words such as aal, aalto and aardvark, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with zelazny
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
I nearly met Zelazny. (4 words)
What about a transitional figure like Zelazny? (7 words)
Zelazny died in 1995, aged 58, of kidney failure secondary to colorectal cancer. (13 words)
Zelazny also tended to write a short fragment, not intended for publication, as a kind of backstory for a major character, as a way of giving that character a life independent of the particular novel being worked on. (38 words)
Zelazny’s father, Joseph, died unexpectedly in 1962 and never knew his son’s successes as a writer; this event may have triggered Zelazny's unconscious and frequent use of the absent father motif. (34 words)
New readers will get a tour of what makes Brust beloved by all the writers whose blurbs grace his cover, from me to John Scalzi to Neil Gaiman to Roger Zelazny. (31 words)
What about a transitional figure like Zelazny? (7 words)
Example sentences (18)
It was completed by Roger Zelazny and remained unpublished until three years after Zelazny's death.
Zelazny’s father, Joseph, died unexpectedly in 1962 and never knew his son’s successes as a writer; this event may have triggered Zelazny's unconscious and frequent use of the absent father motif.
I nearly met Zelazny.
New readers will get a tour of what makes Brust beloved by all the writers whose blurbs grace his cover, from me to John Scalzi to Neil Gaiman to Roger Zelazny.
After finishing the manuscript, Zelazny shuffled the "Two" chapters randomly among the "One" chapters in order to emphasize their non-linear nature relative to the storyline.
And Call Me Roger": The Literary Life of Roger Zelazny, Part 1, by Christopher S. Kovacs.
And Call Me Roger"": The Literary Life of Roger Zelazny, Part 2, by Christopher S. Kovacs.
And Call Me Roger": The Literary Life of Roger Zelazny, Part 3, by Christopher S. Kovacs.
And Call Me Roger": The Literary Life of Roger Zelazny, Part 5, by Christopher S. Kovacs.
Aside from working with mythological themes, the most common recurring motif of Zelazny's is the "absent father" (or father-figure).
A very frequent motif in Zelazny's work is immortality or people who (have) become gods (as well as gods who have turned into people).
Humans linked to machines are found in Pohl and Kornbluth's Wolfbane (1959) and Roger Zelazny 's Creatures of Light and Darkness (1968).
Many of Zelazny's works explore variations upon the idea that if there exists an infinite number of worlds, then every world that can be imagined must exist, somewhere.
The trump picture of Corwin is executed in a subtly different style – and has features very similar to Roger Zelazny's.
What about a transitional figure like Zelazny?
Zelazny also tended to write a short fragment, not intended for publication, as a kind of backstory for a major character, as a way of giving that character a life independent of the particular novel being worked on.
Zelazny died in 1995, aged 58, of kidney failure secondary to colorectal cancer.
Zelazny was also a passionate cigarette and pipe smoker (until he quit in the early '80s), so much so, that he made many of his protagonists heavy smokers as well.
Common combinations with zelazny
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: