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To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, I wish I had known this some time ago.

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Roger Zelazny
Age: 58 †
Born: 1937
Born: May 13
Died: 1995
Died: June 14
Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Roger Joseph Zelazny
Roger Joseph Christopher Zelazny
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