Post by Finarvyn on Jun 9, 2008 15:45:01 GMT -5
I've been pestering Erick for years over this little item:
One is really obvious but the other is sneaky. With Erick's passing I decided that I had to look harder.
And I finally found the second occurance!
There are two differences between the quotes in Shadow Knight and the published version of Prince of Chaos.
At first I was very confused. I had people accusing me of 'making up the quotes' or 'getting it wrong' in the role-playing material.
So, of course, I compared all the quotes in Shadow Knight with the manuscript pages I was sent. A perfect match... Then I compared Zelazny's manuscript pages with the published version of Prince of Chaos...
And discovered that Zelazny had changed his own words. In the manuscript Merlin is told that Coral is pregnant, but Roger pulled that from the published book (this was around the same time he started to think about a third series, and I suspect he decided to save that little bit of discovery for a later book).
The 2nd change?
Ah, I'm keeping that one to myself. So far nobody else has figured it out...
– Erick
At first I was very confused. I had people accusing me of 'making up the quotes' or 'getting it wrong' in the role-playing material.
So, of course, I compared all the quotes in Shadow Knight with the manuscript pages I was sent. A perfect match... Then I compared Zelazny's manuscript pages with the published version of Prince of Chaos...
And discovered that Zelazny had changed his own words. In the manuscript Merlin is told that Coral is pregnant, but Roger pulled that from the published book (this was around the same time he started to think about a third series, and I suspect he decided to save that little bit of discovery for a later book).
The 2nd change?
Ah, I'm keeping that one to myself. So far nobody else has figured it out...
– Erick
One is really obvious but the other is sneaky. With Erick's passing I decided that I had to look harder.
And I finally found the second occurance!
