Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site rti-sel.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!mcnc!rti-sel!shaddock From: shaddock@rti-sel.UUCP (Mike Shaddock) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Zelazny novels on Dilvish ? Message-ID: <60@rti-sel.UUCP> Date: Fri, 11-Jan-85 09:16:32 EST Article-I.D.: rti-sel.60 Posted: Fri Jan 11 09:16:32 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 14-Jan-85 02:40:13 EST References: <10300001@rna.UUCP> <4110@ucbvax.ARPA> Reply-To: shaddock@rti-sel.UUCP (Mike Shaddock) Organization: Research Triangle Institute, NC Lines: 28 Summary: 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