[debo_]

I read Permutation City with great anticipation and really disliked it. My favorite parts were when big ideas met the tedium of execution (like the avatars having to deal with the cost of spot instances, and running in lower-res slower-than-realtime environments.)

I liked Book of the New Sun in a pulpy way. I'm a huge sucker for dying earth settings, and it was great to read one of the originals.

I greatly enjoyed Zelazny's Amber series and have tried to get into some of his sci-fi, but failed. Perhaps it's time to give Lord of Light a third try.

[kadoban]

Lord of Light is worth it if you can manage. I remember I bounced off a few times too.

It's rather hard to believe it's the same author as Amber sometimes, those books took me like 12 seconds to get hooked on, LoL is great it's just _quite_ different in feel.

[mmcdermott]

Besides Amber, I found Jack of Shadows to be an accessible road into Zelazny.

[TheDauthi]

I also recommend two of his shorter works: A Rose for Ecclesiastes and For a Breath I Tarry.

[zem]

I highly recommend the novella "home is the hangman"