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From: bllklly@uwmacc.UUCP (Bill Kelly)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Zelazny, Brust
Message-ID: <1238@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 21-Jun-85 18:15:44 EDT
Article-I.D.: uwmacc.1238
Posted: Fri Jun 21 18:15:44 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 24-Jun-85 08:11:37 EDT
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Reply-To: bllklly@uwmacc.UUCP (Bill Kelly)
Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center
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In article <2267@topaz.ARPA> stever@cit-vax writes:
>I also have stylistic problems with RZ.  When I read a book like
>Tanith Lee's "To Kill The Dead", I see a power of characterization
>RZ cannot touch.
>...Has RZ ever had a truly morbid character?
>(Shadowjack sought vengeance which is a quite different thing)

Speaking as a Zelazny fan, I think most of his protagonists are pretty much
the same character, a male loner, sardonic, somewhat of a rebel, in books
like Doorways in the Sand, Amber series (Corwin) and Trumps (Merlin),
Roadways(? I have trouble remembering the titles), Changeling(?),
The Dying Land, even short stories like the unicorn/chess one
in the Unicorn Variation collection.  Even Jack of Shadows is a variation
on the same theme, though more of a variation than usual. 

I just happen to like reading about this character!
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