dan@rna.UUCP (01/04/85)
x Have others read the Zelazny novels about the character Dilvish ? Any comments ? I enjoyed them quite a bit. I first read "The Changing Land" but then picked up the other one (I forget its title). This seconds takes place before "The Changing Land" but was apparently published after it. Anyone know the story behind this curiousity ? Any other novels coming on Dilvish ? Dan
mjc@cmu-cs-cad.ARPA (Monica Cellio) (01/05/85)
Do you mean 'Dilvish the Damned'? This was billed as a collection of short stories, I think, though they do sort of tie together. The stories concern Dilvish's search for Jelerak, and one tells why Jelerak damned Dilvish in the first place. [Dilvish interrupted him when he was about to perform a human sacrifice for some 'black' reason.] It doesn't say much about how Dilvish got out of hell, though. If there are other Dilvish stories, I'd like to know about them. -Dragon -- UUCP: ...seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!lll-crg!dragon ARPA: monica.cellio@cmu-cs-cad or dragon@lll-crg
jimb@amd.UUCP (Jim Budler) (01/08/85)
In article <> mjc@cmu-cs-cad.ARPA (Monica Cellio) writes: >Do you mean 'Dilvish the Damned'? This was billed as a collection of short >stories, I think, though they do sort of tie together. >... >... It doesn't say much about how Dilvish >got out of hell, though. >... >If there are other Dilvish stories, I'd like to know about them. > The other book is 'The Changing Land'. I've read both of them and enjoyed both of them. -- Jim Budler Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (408) 982-6547 UUCPnet: {ucbvax,decwrl,ihnp4,allegra,intelca}!amd!jimb Compuserve: 72415,1200 The Source: STW265
kupfer@ucbvax.ARPA (Mike Kupfer) (01/10/85)
> I first read "The Changing Land" but > then picked up the other one (I forget its title). This seconds takes place > before "The Changing Land" but was apparently published after it. Anyone > know the story behind this curiousity ? I assume that Zelazny first wrote "The Changing Land" and then decided that Dilvish was an interesting enough character that he wrote "Dilvish, the Damned" (which I haven't read yet). Does anyone know if the same thing (chronology in story is the opposite of publication order) happens with "To Die in Italbar" and "Isle of the Dead"? (Actually, it's not even clear to me which of those 2 stories is supposed to happen first.) -- Mike Kupfer kupfer@Berkeley ...!ucbvax!kupfer "He says, 'Thank you very much, but you can have the bottle back.'"
shaddock@rti-sel.UUCP (Mike Shaddock) (01/11/85)
In article <4110@ucbvax.ARPA> kupfer@ucbvax.ARPA (Mike Kupfer) writes: >> I first read "The Changing Land" but >> then picked up the other one (I forget its title). This seconds takes place >> before "The Changing Land" but was apparently published after it. Anyone >> know the story behind this curiousity ? > >I assume that Zelazny first wrote "The Changing Land" and then decided >that Dilvish was an interesting enough character that he wrote >"Dilvish, the Damned" (which I haven't read yet). Does anyone know if >the same thing (chronology in story is the opposite of publication >order) happens with "To Die in Italbar" and "Isle of the Dead"? >(Actually, it's not even clear to me which of those 2 stories is >supposed to happen first.) >-- As I understand it, the stories in "Dilvish, the Damned" appeared in various magazines during the 60's and 70's. Zelazny wrote "The Changing Land" as a finale, and apparently decided to publish an anthology of all of the other Dilvish stories when "The Changing Land" did reasonably well. On a different track, does anybody know if Zelazny is going to write any more Amber novels? I heard a rumor on the net about a year ago that he had contracted to write 3 more and that the first would be out in October, but I haven't seen it yet. Mike Shaddock {decvax,seismo}!mcnc!rti-sel!shaddock
@RUTGERS.ARPA,@MIT-MC:LS.SRB@MIT-EECS (01/15/85)
From: "Stephen R. Balzac" <LS.SRB%MIT-EECS@MIT-MC.ARPA> Actually, "Dilvish, The Damned" is a collection of Dilvish stories that Zelazny had written over several years. The individual stories were mostly (or perhaps all) published before "Changing Land".
adler@aecom.UUCP (01/18/85)
> x > Have others read the Zelazny novels about the character Dilvish ? > Any comments ? > I enjoyed them quite a bit. I first read "The Changing Land" but > then picked up the other one (I forget its title). This seconds takes place > before "The Changing Land" but was apparently published after it. Anyone > know the story behind this curiousity ? > Any other novels coming on Dilvish ? > > Dan The other book "Dilvish the Damned" is composed of short stories, which were published in other places before being collected into the book. I haven't heard anything about a new Dilvish book, but the question reminds me - has any one heard anything about the Amber books that were rumored to be in the works? Jeremy Sanders aecom!sanders