On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, David Silberstein wrote: > 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. Hmm, Google on those terms gives me zilch. Anyway, yeah, _Roadmarks_. I now remember enough of _DitS_ to know I would have remembered the scene more clearly in that book. I've only got two or three accessible memories from _Roadmarks_. Re Zelazny, has anyone read _Lord Demon_, about Kai Wren, Godslayer? Amazon readers seem to think it wasn't a successful reconstruction of a fragment. I wonder if GS was a reference to SKZB - some of the plot seems to allude to _To Reign in Hell_.