On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Philip Hart wrote: >Is it Zelazny's book _Doorways in the Sand_ where we see a duel >between two expert swordsmen, the duel consisting entirely of the men >circling each other looking for an deadly advantage? I remember one >dueler saying, "You almost had me there" at some point, though >nothing visible changed. I think you are thinking of ROADMARKS, and the combatants are not swordsmen but rather bare-hand martial artists, changing their stances as they circled each other. One is an enhanced cyborg soldier, the other was a monk (who was probably something else before he was a monk). [Google] The soldier was Archie Shellman, the monk was Timyin Tin. The only martial arts I can recall from DOORWAYS IN THE SAND was someone who was rather handy with the shillelagh.