> >Personally, I still think that Brust always thought of his universe as being part of the >Amber > universe. He even tried to write Vlad into the first part of Nine Princes in >Amber is a story I > read that was published on the web. It was the one where Vlad >finds Godslayer and kills some > god with it. In it he had Vlad be the guy Random and >Corwin pass on their first shadowwalk. > > Where's the site for that? http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~phoenix/brust/zelazny.html Is the site that talks about it. I'll include the whole thing since its small: >Another one: in Dream of Passion the goddess seems to take Vlad to a "plane" >which has cars. > > "but nevertheless almost ran into a wagon going very fast in the other > direction, with bright lamps and no horses that I noticed. After that I > stayed even further to the side." > >This, btw, is Brust's homage to Zelazny: he claims that the car is >what's-his-name's, the narrator of the Amber series. > >"What's-his-name" being Corwin Prince of Amber, of course. The actual link to the Short Story is below. Its called A Dream of Passion. I'm assuming that Steven decided NOT to make this an actual part of the Vlad saga since it no longer fits with Issola . . . but with Steve, who knows ;) http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~phoenix/brust/dream.html "I didn't spend all those years playing D&D and not learn a little something about courage." -Some Dork, The X-Files Erik Holmes Shoby187 at yahoo.com AIM: ErikHolmes ICQ: 2593395 MSN: Shoby187 at hotmail.com Y!: Shoby187 at yahoo.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/