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* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: The Creator/MarquisDeSade uses a Tyrannosaurus Rex to quit his teaching job in Writing in the far-distant future and finds himself fighting an amorous dragon with mystic powers. ItMakesSenseInContext.
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* LawyerFriendlyCameo: Yet other travelers on the road go unnamed but resemble famous fictional characters including Franchise/DocSavage and one of his enemies, John Sunlight.
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* LawyerFriendlyCameo: Yet other travelers on the road go unnamed but resemble famous fictional characters including Franchise/DocSavage Literature/DocSavage and one of his enemies, John Sunlight.
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* GentleGiant: Mondamay is a large alien robot with the power to obliterate entire planets, but finds himself left behind by his creators due massive system malfunctions. He becomes a potter and lives a peaceful life until reactivated by an assassin and ordered to kill a friend.
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* GentleGiant: Mondamay is a large alien robot with the power to obliterate entire planets, but finds himself left behind by his creators due to massive system malfunctions. He becomes a potter and lives a peaceful life until reactivated by an assassin and ordered to kill a friend.
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* GentleGiant: Mondamay is a large alien robot with the power to obliterate entire planets, but finds himself left behind by his creators due to a malfunction. He becomes a potter and lives a peaceful life until reactivated by an assassin and ordered to kill a friend.
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* GentleGiant: Mondamay is a large alien robot with the power to obliterate entire planets, but finds himself left behind by his creators due to a malfunction.massive system malfunctions. He becomes a potter and lives a peaceful life until reactivated by an assassin and ordered to kill a friend.
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* UsefulNotes/TheCrusades: Randy meets a crusader who lost his way and somehow found The Road. Now he works in a gas station, sometimes asking travelers for news on the wars.
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* Main/ActionGirl: Strong female characters, both physically and in personality, feature in the alternative chapters.
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* Main/ActionGirl: ActionGirl: Strong female characters, both physically and in personality, feature in the alternative chapters.
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** Leila, an old friend of Red's with semi-dependable [[Main/PsychicPowers precognition]], joins Red's son Randy in chasing Red down. She's quite tall and solid, described as carrying her purse like a football. She hopes to save Red's life, but isn't above placing bets against him is there's profit to be made!
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** Leila, an old friend of Red's with semi-dependable [[Main/PsychicPowers [[PsychicPowers precognition]], joins Red's son Randy in chasing Red down. She's quite tall and solid, described as carrying her purse like a football. She hopes to save Red's life, but isn't above placing bets against him is there's profit to be made!
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* Main/AncientAstronauts: One of the characters is Mondamay, the world killer (retired) from a distant offshoot of Earth where an alien race deposited him. He is enlisted as an assassin against his will.
* Main/ArtificialIntelligence: Two of the characters in the story are computers in the form of books: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Fleurs_du_mal Flowers of Evil]] accompanies Red in the ''One'' chapters while his son Randy discovers and is assisted by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaves_of_Grass Leaves of Grass]] in the ''Two'' chapters. Both assist in navigating The Road.
* Main/ArtificialIntelligence: Two of the characters in the story are computers in the form of books: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Fleurs_du_mal Flowers of Evil]] accompanies Red in the ''One'' chapters while his son Randy discovers and is assisted by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaves_of_Grass Leaves of Grass]] in the ''Two'' chapters. Both assist in navigating The Road.
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* Main/AncientAstronauts: AncientAstronauts: One of the characters is Mondamay, the world killer (retired) from a distant offshoot of Earth where an alien race deposited him. He is enlisted as an assassin against his will.
*Main/ArtificialIntelligence: ArtificialIntelligence: Two of the characters in the story are computers in the form of books: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Fleurs_du_mal Flowers of Evil]] accompanies Red in the ''One'' chapters while his son Randy discovers and is assisted by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaves_of_Grass Leaves of Grass]] in the ''Two'' chapters. Both assist in navigating The Road.
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* Main/EverybodySmokes: Cigars, by preference.
* Main/EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: The Creator/MarquisDeSade uses a Tyrannosaurus Rex to quit his teaching job in Writing in the far-distant future and finds himself fighting an amorous dragon with mystic powers. Main/ItMakesSenseInContext.
* Main/EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: The Creator/MarquisDeSade uses a Tyrannosaurus Rex to quit his teaching job in Writing in the far-distant future and finds himself fighting an amorous dragon with mystic powers. Main/ItMakesSenseInContext.
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* Main/EverybodySmokes: EverybodySmokes: Cigars, by preference.
*Main/EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: The Creator/MarquisDeSade uses a Tyrannosaurus Rex to quit his teaching job in Writing in the far-distant future and finds himself fighting an amorous dragon with mystic powers. Main/ItMakesSenseInContext.ItMakesSenseInContext.
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: The other travelers on the road include Creator/AmbroseBierce, the Creator/MarquisDeSade, and a small German man named Adolph who's said to be searching without success for a timeline where his cause was victorious.
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: The other Other travelers on the road include Creator/AmbroseBierce, the Creator/MarquisDeSade, and a small German man named Adolph who's said to be searching without success for a timeline where his cause was victorious.
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* Main/AncientAstronauts: One of the characters is Mondamay, the world killer (retired) from a distant offshoot of Earth where an alien race deposited. He is enlisted as an assassin against his will.
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* Main/AncientAstronauts: One of the characters is Mondamay, the world killer (retired) from a distant offshoot of Earth where an alien race deposited.deposited him. He is enlisted as an assassin against his will.
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* Main/EverybodySmokes: Cigars, by preference.
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** Leila, an old friend of Red's with semi-dependable [[Main/PsychicPowers clairvoyance]], joins Red's son Randy in chasing Red down. She's quite tall and solid, described as carrying her purse like a football. She hopes to save Red's life, but isn't above placing bets against him is there's profit to be made!
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** Leila, an old friend of Red's with semi-dependable [[Main/PsychicPowers clairvoyance]], precognition]], joins Red's son Randy in chasing Red down. She's quite tall and solid, described as carrying her purse like a football. She hopes to save Red's life, but isn't above placing bets against him is there's profit to be made!
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* BerserkButton: Leaves enjoys songs about drinking and fornicating. '''Don't''' tease her about it unless you plan on walking back to Present Day Earth.
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* Main/NoAccountingForTaste: Leaves enjoys songs about drinking and fornicating. '''Don't''' tease her about it unless you plan on [[Main/BerserkButton walking back]] to the Twenty-First century.
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* Main/NoAccountingForTaste: Leaves enjoys songs about drinking and fornicating. '''Don't''' tease her about it unless you plan on [[Main/BerserkButton walking back]] to the Twenty-First century.
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''Roadmarks'' is an SF novel published in 1979 by Creator/RogerZelazny.
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''Roadmarks'' is an SF a Science Fantasy novel published in 1979 by Creator/RogerZelazny.
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* HaveWeMetYet: Played with; on several occasions, people reminisce about a previous meeting with Red then add that they're not sure if it's happened to him yet, because he looked older then. [[spoiler:It turns out that he's growing younger instead of older as time goes on.]]
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* HaveWeMetYet: Played with; on several occasions, people reminisce about a previous meeting with Red then add that they're not sure if it's happened to him yet, because he looked older then. [[spoiler:It turns out that he's growing younger instead of older as time goes on.]]See MerlinSickness below.
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* Main/EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: The Creator/MarquisDeSade uses a Tyrannosaurus Rex to quit his teaching job in Writing in the far-distant future and finds himself fighting an amorous dragon with mystic powers. Main/ItMakesSenseInContext.
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The novel alternates chapters (labeled either One or Two) that tell the story of Red Dorakeen's search for his past with vignettes involving a variety of places and characters along the road, all of which eventually feed in to the resolution of the main plot.
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The novel alternates chapters (labeled either One ''One'' or Two) ''Two'') that tell the story of Red Dorakeen's search for his past with vignettes involving a variety of places and characters along the road, all of which eventually feed in to the resolution of the main plot.
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* Main/ArtificialIntelligence: Two of the characters in the story are computers in the form of books: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Fleurs_du_mal Flowers of Evil]] accompanies Red in the ''One'' chapters while his son Randy discovers and is assisted by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaves_of_Grass Leaves of Grass]] in the ''Two'' chapters. Both assist in navigating The Road.
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The novel alternates chapters that tell the story of Red Dorakeen's search for his past with vignettes involving a variety of places and characters along the road, all of which eventually feed in to the resolution of the main plot.
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* Main/ActionGirl: Strong female characters, both physically and in personality, feature in the alternative chapters.
** Strangulena has strangled over a hundred lovers and is recruited as an assassin. She's easily strong enough to get the job done.
** Leila, an old friend of Red's with semi-dependable [[Main/PsychicPowers clairvoyance]], joins Red's son Randy in chasing Red down. She's quite tall and solid, described as carrying her purse like a football. She hopes to save Red's life, but isn't above placing bets against him is there's profit to be made!
** Strangulena has strangled over a hundred lovers and is recruited as an assassin. She's easily strong enough to get the job done.
** Leila, an old friend of Red's with semi-dependable [[Main/PsychicPowers clairvoyance]], joins Red's son Randy in chasing Red down. She's quite tall and solid, described as carrying her purse like a football. She hopes to save Red's life, but isn't above placing bets against him is there's profit to be made!
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* Main/AncientAstronauts: One of the characters is Mondamay, the world killer (retired) from a distant offshoot of Earth where an alien race deposited. He is enlisted as an assassin against his will.
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* UsefulNotes/TheCrusades: Randy meets a crusader who lost his way and somehow found The Road. Now he works in a gas station, sometimes asking travelers for news on the wars.
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* LawyerFriendlyCameo: Yet other travelers on the road go unnamed but resemble famous fictional characters including Franchise/DocSavage.
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* LawyerFriendlyCameo: Yet other travelers on the road go unnamed but resemble famous fictional characters including Franchise/DocSavage.Franchise/DocSavage and one of his enemies, John Sunlight.
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''Roadmarks'' is an SF novel by Creator/RogerZelazny.
The setting is a highway that can only be found by people with a certain unspecified mystical knack, where each of the exits and off-ramps leads to a different point in history. (In multiple histories, indeed; some of the people traveling on the highway are lost, trying to find the way back to the timeline they originally came from, while others have abandoned their original timeline and are seeking one more to their liking.)
The setting is a highway that can only be found by people with a certain unspecified mystical knack, where each of the exits and off-ramps leads to a different point in history. (In multiple histories, indeed; some of the people traveling on the highway are lost, trying to find the way back to the timeline they originally came from, while others have abandoned their original timeline and are seeking one more to their liking.)
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''Roadmarks'' is an SF novel published in 1979 by Creator/RogerZelazny.
The setting is a highway that can only be found by people with a certain unspecified mystical knack, where each of the exits and off-rampsleads lead to a different point points in history. (In multiple histories, indeed; And not just a single history, but to alternate histories as well; some of the people traveling on the highway are lost, trying to find the way back to the timeline they originally came from, while others have abandoned their original timeline and are seeking one more to their liking.)
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Known only as The Road, created by the fabled Dragons of Bel'kwinith for unknowable purposes, it has always existed, along with its strange collection of travelers. The Road slowly changes in response to those traveling it and reflecting the constant changes caused by tampering with history.
The setting is a highway that can only be found by people with a certain unspecified mystical knack, where each of the exits and off-ramps
Known only as The Road, created by the fabled Dragons of Bel'kwinith for unknowable purposes, it has always existed, along with its strange collection of travelers. The Road slowly changes in response to those traveling it and reflecting the constant changes caused by tampering with history.
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* AnachronicOrder: The vignettes are in no particular order; for instance, the first shows Randy having an encounter on the road, while a later one shows him arriving on the road for the first time. Zelazny reportedly wrote them out on separate pieces of paper and shuffled them into a random order before interleaving them with the Red chapters.
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* AnachronicOrder: The vignettes are in no particular order; for instance, the first shows Randy having an encounter on the road, while a later one shows him arriving on the road for the first time. Zelazny reportedly wrote them out on separate pieces of paper and shuffled them into a random order before interleaving them with the Red chapters. However, Author Notes in one of Zelazny's collections relates that his editor required rearranging a few of the chapters for story purposes.
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* GentleGiant: Mondamay.
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* GentleGiant: Mondamay.Mondamay is a large alien robot with the power to obliterate entire planets, but finds himself left behind by his creators due to a malfunction. He becomes a potter and lives a peaceful life until reactivated by an assassin and ordered to kill a friend.
* GodwinsLawOfTimeTravel: Subverted; a highway runs from one end of time to the other with offshoots that lead to alternative time lines and poor Adolph still can not find a place "where he won".
* GodwinsLawOfTimeTravel: Subverted; a highway runs from one end of time to the other with offshoots that lead to alternative time lines and poor Adolph still can not find a place "where he won".
* OutWithABang: A woman who specialized in killing her partner at "the moment" so he was coming and going at the same time.
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* YouDidntAsk: Used deliberately against one of the villains. A character is placed under a compulsion to obey the villain's orders; the villain's plan fails due to a fact the character knew all along but chose not to volunteer; the villain asks why he didn't warn him, and the character replies, with exact truth, "You never asked me."
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* YouDidntAsk: Used deliberately against one of the villains. A character Mondamay is placed under a compulsion to obey the villain's orders; the villain's plan fails due to a fact the character Mondamay knew all along but chose not to volunteer; the villain asks why he didn't warn him, and the character Mondamay replies, with exact truth, "You never asked me."
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* ScienceFantasy: The story mixes science fiction tropes like robots and cyborgs with fantasy tropes like dragons and mystical powers. (Reader's choice which side the time travel falls on.)
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''Roadmarks'' is an SF novel by Creator/RogerZelazny.
The setting is a highway that can only be found by people with a certain unspecified mystical knack, where each of the exits and off-ramps leads to a different point in history. (In multiple histories, indeed; some of the people traveling on the highway are lost, trying to find the way back to the timeline they originally came from, while others have abandoned their original timeline and are seeking one more to their liking.)
The novel alternates chapters that tell the story of Red Dorakeen's search for his past with vignettes involving a variety of places and characters along the road, all of which eventually feed in to the resolution of the main plot.
!!This novel provides examples of:
* AnachronicOrder: The vignettes are in no particular order; for instance, the first shows Randy having an encounter on the road, while a later one shows him arriving on the road for the first time. Zelazny reportedly wrote them out on separate pieces of paper and shuffled them into a random order before interleaving them with the Red chapters.
* CarnivalOfKillers: The antagonist hires the "Black Decade", ten highly skilled assassins/hunters from the entire range of Earth's history, to eliminate Red. This includes an assassin robot, a genetically enhanced and cybernetic super soldier, and a martial arts master.
* DeadManWriting: Played with -- a character writes a note to his employer explaining why he intends not only to resign but to kill his employer before he departs. He ends it with a postscript: "By the time you read this, you will already be dead."
* DisappearedDad: Randy's father disappeared when he was very young.
* GentleGiant: Mondamay.
* HaveWeMetYet: Played with; on several occasions, people reminisce about a previous meeting with Red then add that they're not sure if it's happened to him yet, because he looked older then. [[spoiler:It turns out that he's growing younger instead of older as time goes on.]]
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: The other travelers on the road include Creator/AmbroseBierce, the Creator/MarquisDeSade, and a small German man named Adolph who's said to be searching without success for a timeline where his cause was victorious.
* LawyerFriendlyCameo: Yet other travelers on the road go unnamed but resemble famous fictional characters including Franchise/DocSavage.
* MerlinSickness: Certain people start out as old men (or women) and grow younger over time. The question of what they have in common and why this happens is central to the plot.
* UnusualChapterNumbers: ''Roadmarks'', which involves time travel, begins with "Two", followed by "One" -- then another "Two", another "One", and so on through the book. The chapters numbered One follow the protagonist through the story; the chapters numbered Two contain related scenes in other times and places, and are not in chronological order.
* YouDidntAsk: Used deliberately against one of the villains. A character is placed under a compulsion to obey the villain's orders; the villain's plan fails due to a fact the character knew all along but chose not to volunteer; the villain asks why he didn't warn him, and the character replies, with exact truth, "You never asked me."
The setting is a highway that can only be found by people with a certain unspecified mystical knack, where each of the exits and off-ramps leads to a different point in history. (In multiple histories, indeed; some of the people traveling on the highway are lost, trying to find the way back to the timeline they originally came from, while others have abandoned their original timeline and are seeking one more to their liking.)
The novel alternates chapters that tell the story of Red Dorakeen's search for his past with vignettes involving a variety of places and characters along the road, all of which eventually feed in to the resolution of the main plot.
!!This novel provides examples of:
* AnachronicOrder: The vignettes are in no particular order; for instance, the first shows Randy having an encounter on the road, while a later one shows him arriving on the road for the first time. Zelazny reportedly wrote them out on separate pieces of paper and shuffled them into a random order before interleaving them with the Red chapters.
* CarnivalOfKillers: The antagonist hires the "Black Decade", ten highly skilled assassins/hunters from the entire range of Earth's history, to eliminate Red. This includes an assassin robot, a genetically enhanced and cybernetic super soldier, and a martial arts master.
* DeadManWriting: Played with -- a character writes a note to his employer explaining why he intends not only to resign but to kill his employer before he departs. He ends it with a postscript: "By the time you read this, you will already be dead."
* DisappearedDad: Randy's father disappeared when he was very young.
* GentleGiant: Mondamay.
* HaveWeMetYet: Played with; on several occasions, people reminisce about a previous meeting with Red then add that they're not sure if it's happened to him yet, because he looked older then. [[spoiler:It turns out that he's growing younger instead of older as time goes on.]]
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: The other travelers on the road include Creator/AmbroseBierce, the Creator/MarquisDeSade, and a small German man named Adolph who's said to be searching without success for a timeline where his cause was victorious.
* LawyerFriendlyCameo: Yet other travelers on the road go unnamed but resemble famous fictional characters including Franchise/DocSavage.
* MerlinSickness: Certain people start out as old men (or women) and grow younger over time. The question of what they have in common and why this happens is central to the plot.
* UnusualChapterNumbers: ''Roadmarks'', which involves time travel, begins with "Two", followed by "One" -- then another "Two", another "One", and so on through the book. The chapters numbered One follow the protagonist through the story; the chapters numbered Two contain related scenes in other times and places, and are not in chronological order.
* YouDidntAsk: Used deliberately against one of the villains. A character is placed under a compulsion to obey the villain's orders; the villain's plan fails due to a fact the character knew all along but chose not to volunteer; the villain asks why he didn't warn him, and the character replies, with exact truth, "You never asked me."