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The name wasn't listed at behindthename.com (which often has pronunciations) and I couldn't find an official site for him and wikipedia didn't have a pronunciation either. Though I did learn that there is an Internet Scifi Database (isfdb.org). I thought that was kind of interesting. Maybe an imdb.com for spec fic books.
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Somewhere on a Zelazny site, there's a very old interview(from the early 70's). I burned it on CD--don't know where that got off to. Neither am I sure if the interviewer mentions his name.
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Well, I suppose I should cut them some slack.
When I was quite young, my brother had a rather large collection of Robert A. Heinlein paperbacks. The "Robert" and the "A" were printed very close together on the spine. I was 12 before I realized it was Robert A. Heinlein and not Roberta Heinlein. :P
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Well I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. ZelaZny back in 1991 and he did not correct me when I said "It is a genuine honor and pleasure to meet you Mr. Zelazny!".
I also knew Eric Wujcik who wrote the Amber RPG, which is how I met Zelazny and he used a hard Z though he called him Roger.
I think the guy at the bookstore had been sniffing too much newsprint.
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I was out of my teens before I ran across anyone outside published works who spelled "Asimov" the way Asimov did. Usually it came out "Asiminov" or "Eismenov" or somesuch. And some of these people were teachers.
My spell checking keeps telling me my own name is spelled wrong. Who am I going to believe, me or the computer?
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