On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Ken Koester wrote: >Not Chandler, Zelazny. But that gets less and less strong as the >series unrolls. Hm. Is it not possible that Zelazny was influenced by Chandler as well (and Brust is influenced by both)? >The French killed off the notion of influence studies in literary >criticism decades ago, How? Why? >I would find Brust's opinion of Zelazny interesting, just for the >sake of assuaging curiosity. > You're new here, I nearly think (not a criticism, merely an observation). http://dreamcafe.com/weblog.cgi ] Thu Jul 17th, 2003 10:29 PM ] ] I've been asked to do an introduction to a collection of short ] stories by Roger Zelazny. I'm more than a little flattered and ] honored. But I have no bloody clue what to say. No one wants to ] read three thousand words of, "But. like, he's really good!" ] Tue Nov 13th, 2001 4:47 PM ] Maybe it's the prospect of seeing Neil again, but for some ] reason I've been missing Roger Zelazny a lot these last few ] weeks. I really want to sit down and talk to him about ] writing, and about Stuff. ] Neil and I, along with Walter Jon Williams, have been called ] Roger's bastard children, literarily, and it's a title I ] wear with pride. I wonder what would happen if the three of us ] tried to write a book together? Given how differently we ] approach things, it would almost certainly be a catastrophe, and ] not very much fun either. Kind of cool to think about, ] though. The big problem is that I write in 6/8 time, whereas ] Neil, like Roger, often writes in 2/4, and Walterjon writes in ] complex East African polyrhythms--when we got done, *no* one ] could dance to it. And like that.