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From: kalash@ucbcad.UUCP
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Subject: Re: More on Dilvish
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Date: Fri, 11-Jan-85 13:48:09 EST
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> Where Zelazny lets the reader down is in the
> details.  Dilvish's universe is not painted with any clarity; I
> wanted to know a lot more about Hell, or how Dilvish got his
> "demonic metal horse, Black," or what the sociology of the land was
> like.

	But Zelazny NEVER explains anything. In "Isle of the Dead"
there are these Gods running about, who come from no where. In 
"Nine Princes in Amber" we have these unicorns and "shadows" that are
never really explained. In "Roadmarks" there are these funny dragons.
In .

	You really can't single out the Dilvish books for this,
Zelazny has always put in full blown universes without explaining
anything about them.


			Joe Kalash
			kalash@berkeley
			ucbvax!kalash