Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site topaz.ARPA
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!topaz!SBALZAC%YKTVMX.BITNET
From: SBALZAC%YKTVMX.BITNET@Berkeley
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Jack of Shadows vs Amber
Message-ID: <2639@topaz.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 10-Jul-85 08:17:34 EDT
Article-I.D.: topaz.2639
Posted: Wed Jul 10 08:17:34 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 12-Jul-85 02:57:31 EDT
Sender: daemon@topaz.ARPA
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
Lines: 10

From: Stephen Balzac 

It's not so much that Shadowjack is like Corwin as all of Zelazny's heros
fit a certain pattern:  that is, they all have some unusual ability that
the reader doesn't know about, and only slowly learns of.  In Amber, of
course, he adds an additional twist in that Corwin doesn't know of his
powers either.  Anyway the use of shadow in JoS is not at all like Shadow
in Amber.  Amber's Shadow is really parallel worlds, whereas JoS deals with
absence of light.  Creatures of Light and Darkness is a much closer analogy,
especially Thoth's power to "transport himself to anyplace he could imagine."