Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!topaz!@RUTGERS.ARPA:faiman%eludom.DEC@decwrl.ARPA From: @RUTGERS.ARPA:faiman%eludom.DEC@decwrl.ARPA Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: _The_Changing_Land_ Message-ID: <300@topaz.ARPA> Date: Thu, 17-Jan-85 09:04:51 EST Article-I.D.: topaz.300 Posted: Thu Jan 17 09:04:51 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 20-Jan-85 06:11:49 EST Sender: daemon@topaz.ARPA Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 19 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 Easynet: ELUDOM::FAIMAN ARPA: FAIMAN%ELUDOM.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA UUCP: {allegra,decvax}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-eludom!faiman