@RUTGERS.ARPA:faiman%eludom.DEC@decwrl.ARPA (01/17/85)
From: faiman%eludom.DEC@decwrl.ARPA (Neil Faiman ~ ZKO2-3/N30 ~ 381-2017)
I'm another Zelazny fan who has found the Dilvish books to be fun reading --
far from great, but certainly enjoyable for anyone who enjoys Zelazny. But
I've been baffled by one thing about _The_Changing_Land_.
(********** Minor spoiler **********)
Fairly late in the book, there's a fairly long sequence in which the castle
comes unstuck in time and gets accelerated off into the far future. Now,
this whole sequence is a spectacularly close copy of the central portion
of William Hope Hodgson's _The_House_on_the_Borderland_ -- far too close
for coincidence. So why did Zelazny copy a big chunk of an obscure early
1900's fantasy story? Was anyone else struck by this?
-Neil Faiman
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