The Black Unicorn
This is my favorite piece of Amber- related reading material which plays after the last book Roger Zelazny wrote. I don't know if it's the style, storyline or sheer size of it that makes it all that interesting, but it does make for excellent reading.
It's written by Jan Pieter de Graaf, and based on a running campain by Astrid Tops. Just click on her name to go to her web-site.
If you're not familiar with the Amber-books, the Cosmology-chapter might give you some insights in how the storyline develops until the first chapter. The best way of reading this story, is right after the last book Roger Zelazny wrote. If you are absolutely unfamiliar with Amber. then don't worry if the first few chapters seem kind of confusing. All will be revealed in good time. On the other hand... if after the first 10 chapters you still can't make heads or tail of anything, you are probably one of the ones that will never understand.
As for other points of view on the story, one can read the diaries of both Boadice and Murlas at these pages.
If you find any errors in page-build up, or any spelling-errors, please report them to me. I've done my best to get any of these out, but there's always the chance there are still errors in the files.
Have fun reading, Jurriaan van Doornik
(who is quite sure he should start re-reading the whole thing again from the beginning real soon)
Chapter 002 A Meeting in Dreams
Chapter 003 Calm Before The Storm
Chapter 005 Angelcity Nightlife
Chapter 006 To Trump Or Not To Trump
Chapter 010 Let's Talk About It
Chapter 011 The Trial Of Murlas
Chapter 015 Denouncement (Of Sorts)
Chapter 019 Reviewing Relationships
Chapter 020 A Night In The Dungeons
Chapter 021 Down Among The Living, Up Among The Dead
Chapter 022 A Trip To The Overshadow
Chapter 023 Ill Met By Moonlight
Chapter 025 An Unexpected Goodbye
Chapter 026 Cousins, As Usual...
Chapter 028 ...Or To Die Trying
Chapter 029 A Holiday In France
Chapter 033 Promises Old And New
Chapter 037 Predetermined Meetings
Chapter 040 Of Beards, Pilgrims And Flying Lizards
Chapter 043 With Needle And Thread
Chapter 044 In A Sea Of Bigger Fish
Chapter 046 Hello, Big Brother
Chapter 047 No Rational Solution
Chapter 051 The Best-Laid Plans
Chapter 052 Him, The Snake, And I
Chapter 055 Overshadow Revisited
Chapter 056 Mother And Daughter
Chapter 057 Into The Wrong Hands
Chapter 058 Going Up In Flames
Chapter 059 The Hermit's Legacy
Chapter 063 Socializing In The Courts
Chapter 064 Death At The Party
Chapter 065 On The Other Side Of You
Chapter 066 Truth And Loathing In Quendor
Chapter 069 Caught In The Middle
Chapter 071 Down The Spiral Prologue
Chapter 073 A Spot Of Burglary
Chapter 077 Surviving On Instinct
Chapter 078 Sea Ride On Amber, Mark II
Chapter 082 Scenes Of Amberite Domestic Life
Chapter 083 The Consequences Of Premature Verdicts
Chapter 084 Have A Drink, My Friend
Chapter 086 Calm Run Of The Rumour Mill
Chapter 091 The King Remembered
Chapter 094 Boundlessly Drifting
Chapter 099 Misery Loves Company
Chapter 100 And The Winner Is...
Chapter 103 Playing A Forced Hand
Chapter 106 Government In Exile
Chapter
107 Commitment
Chapter 108 Mental Homes
Chapter 111 ...
Note Nov 3rd 2005 : This page is appearantly tracked by a lot of people (guess the story is popular, yay Jan Pieter!). Last update to this page was in august 2003. We're 2 years along now... and to my knowledge no new chapters have been released... yet. Which explains the lack of updates on this page. Rest assured, I'm still alive, and able to update this page (which I haven't accessed in ages actually, so I was a bit stunned I still recall how to access and update everything). It's just that there isn't anything new I can post on here... Sorry everyone... Blame the author ;-)
Note March 16th 2007 : Still haven't seen any updates take place... Sorry y'all... It seems the wait will still be extended...
Note January 4th 2014 : 7 years since the last update, Over 11 years since the last update, and Astrids page seems to have moved server and is linking the wrong server for it's pages. See here for the Amber Index and here for the Dorian Diaries she has up. Haven't heard from anyone in all this time, so I'm somewhat convinced the campaign died. I mean, it's been 11 _years_!! :-(
For some background information, among which are the trumps drawn for the campaign, aswell as a family-tree and a what-is-what, please visit Jopie "Boadice" Schekkerman's site.
Last modified on January 4th 2014