The Guns of Avalon - Roger Zelazny

The Guns of Avalon is the second in Roger Zelazny's incomparable Chronicles of Amber series. Having regained his eyesight and escaped from a dungeon in Amber, Corwin flees into shadow to raise an army to take back what is rightfully his. There are dark forces gathering to stop him and to destroy Amber and all that it stands for. But Corwin has a secret weapon and if it works, the outcome won't even be close this time. Breathtaking and magical!
Roger Zelazny was a New York Times best selling science fiction and fantasy writer, a six time Hugo Award winner, and a three time Nebula Award Winner. He published more than forty novels in his lifetime. His first novel This Immortal, serialized in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction under the title ...And Call Me Conrad, won the Hugo Award for best novel. Lord of Light, his third novel, also won the Hugo award and was nominated for the Nebula award.
He died at age 58 from colon cancer. Zelazny was posthumously inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2010.