Lord of Light is absolutely brilliant and definitely up there with Dune as the greatest sci-fi novels ever written (it is interesting to note that Zelazny's first novel, This Immortal, tied with Dune for the Hugo Award the year they came out). I love Zelazny's ability to take mythology/religion and incorporate it into a sci-fi setting. In Lord of Light he uses Hinduism and Buddhism, in Creatures of Light and Darkness its Egyptian mythology, in This Immortal its Greek mythology, and he even uses Native American mythology in Eye of Cat. If you haven't read it yet, I highly recommend it. Maybe I'll write a review of it and post it.
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Roger Zelazny
01/09/2009 07:16:36 PM
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Amber is good, but I am with Rebekah: Lord of Light is brilliant. *NM*
01/09/2009 07:24:47 PM
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Like most people, all I have read are 10 amber books and one Lord of Light
01/09/2009 07:52:25 PM
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Lord of Light
01/09/2009 09:18:33 PM
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i'm supposed to have read lord of light... haven't done it yet, i guess this is my cue, hehe *NM*
02/09/2009 06:07:15 AM
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Re: I'm reading some of the less famous novels now.
02/09/2009 02:32:13 PM
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Lord of Light was incredibly cool once I worked out what it really was.
02/09/2009 11:48:17 PM
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Re: Lord of Light was incredibly cool once I worked out what it really was.
03/09/2009 02:12:38 AM
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