I’ve just started to re-read The Great Book Of Amber, all of Roger Zelazny’s Amber series, plus the continuation books published later in one big volume. I think it’s about ten books in all. Which, size-wise would fill about the same amount of shelf-space as an average trilogy these days! My original paperbacks are each only about 15mm thick, maybe 20mm, and that was a complete novel back in the 70’s. I’ve just looked it up, there are ten books in all, totalling 1264 pages, so each volume is only 126 pages long! A modestly sized novel these days is often three or four times that!
I absolutely love his writing, he literally paints pictures with words, and he creates wonderful characters and settings for them. It’s such a shame that the only film, (that I know of), that was based on one of his books was such a dreadful travesty of what he’d written that he demanded that every reference to him and his original book were removed from all promotional material. The film is ‘Damnation Alley’, and it really is shockingly awful.