Roger Zelazny's Dilvish, the Damned

About this episode

Episode 164 features hosts Jeff Goad and Ngo Vinh-Hoi along with special guests discussing various topics.

Our Patron Book Club joins us to discuss Roger Zelazny’s “Dilvish, the Damned”, military words, short stories from the 60s-80s, Jack of Shadows and the Amber books, how easy it is to lose invisible swords, tagging along like a squire to a knight, wizards in fish-shirts, half-elves in literature, sorcery requiring the assumption of an artificially-constructed personality, escaping death traps, breaking locks, assassins climbing mountains of ice, and more!

People in this episode

Hosts: Jeff Goad, Ngo Vinh-Hoi

Guest: special guests

Topics covered

• podcast
• book club
• discussion
• literature
• entertainment

Keywords

• Appendix N
• book club
• podcast episode
• literature
• discussion

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