The Changing Land
core novel 1981 Dilvish, the Damned
Record
| First published | 1981 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.81 (1,413 ratings, collected 2026-09-05) |
| Page count | 245 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780345344410 |
| Internal chronology | 2 |
Synopsis
The Changing Land is the second work in the Dilvish the Damned sequence, following the elven-human warrior Dilvish and his mechanical steed Black, a demon bound into the form of a horse, as they close in on the sorcerer Jelerak, the enemy responsible for Dilvish's earlier transformation to stone and centuries-long banishment. Their pursuit leads them to Jelerak's stronghold, a shifting, dangerous fortress-realm shaped by the sorcerer's own twisted power, where illusion and reality blur and the landscape itself can turn against intruders. Dilvish, driven by his long-held grievance against Jelerak, presses forward through the stronghold's trials and guardians, determined to finally confront the man responsible for the ordeal that has defined his existence since being turned to stone two hundred years earlier. The novel expands on the world and mythology first sketched in the Dilvish short stories.
Where it sits
- Universe: Dilvish, the Damned
- Series: Dilvish, the Damned core; position 2 of 2 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Roger Zelazny
Notes
- From the series record (Dilvish, the Damned): A sword-and-sorcery series about Dilvish, part-elf survivor of a curse laid by the sorcerer Jelerak. The eleven short stories collected as Dilvish, the Damned (1982) were originally published across various magazines from 1965 onward; the novel The Changing Land (1981) is the direct narrative sequel and was published in book form a year before its own predecessor stories were gathered into a collection, so publication year and story order diverge here (per this project's established handling of pulp-era serialized publication histories). A secondary claim that the collection was nominated for a 1982 Locus Award could not be corroborated against the award's own record in this session and is omitted rather than recorded unverified.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series Dilvish, the Damned: position 1 of 2: next Dilvish, the Damned (1982)
- Internal chronology, within Dilvish, the Damned: position 2 of 2: previous Dilvish, the Damned (1982)
Sources
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