Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 8/23/84; site ucbcad.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!ucbvax!ucbcad!kalash From: kalash@ucbcad.UUCP Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: More on Dilvish Message-ID: <56@ucbcad.UUCP> Date: Fri, 11-Jan-85 13:48:09 EST Article-I.D.: ucbcad.56 Posted: Fri Jan 11 13:48:09 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 13-Jan-85 07:48:47 EST References: <468@hogpd.UUCP> Organization: UC Berkeley CAD Group, Berkeley, CA Lines: 20 > 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