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I read a ton of nonfiction, BUT I do enjoy reading fiction on summer breaks, or when I can.
I wanted to ask you about Lord of Light . Do you tend more toward science fiction than fantasy, or do you read both? I have not appreciated sci-fi, and I don't know what the problem is...is it ...
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I need to check out Zelazny Lord of Light I just touchstones it, so I will go and take a look...
question-- do you create any kind of listing of the top ten books you read--or a listing of favorite 2009 books for example? Thanks, rosinbow
Lord of Light and the the Pliocene Exile Saga are my favorites. I read them all over and over again and always find more to surprise me. And Marc Remillard is, IMO, the best bad guy ever created.
... chapters of novels I'll never write." or something to that effect.
Jack of Shadows would be great for high school. Lord of Light might be too long, but Gaiman said he first read it when he was 11 & adored it. I certainly loved it as a teenager.
... Some pieces of his novels are in them such as "And Call Me Conrad" which later became This Immortal & a section from Lord of Light , the Executioner & the Buddha, I believe it was called.
It's probably best you read about it directly:
http://nesfa.org/press/Books/Zelazny-Project.html
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... on.
This Immortal is fairly short. It's post-apocalyptic Earth with Greek mythology tossed in for seasoning.
Lord of Light is longer & was written in 6 or 7 sections. Another world where humans become Hindu 'gods'.
Jack of Shadows is a short, but good introduction to his ...
... Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson is really a must read.
I would suggest you check out Roger Zelazny's Lord of Light too, but as it is quite old, you might have read it already.
Hyperion by Dan Simmons is also quite a good take on Science Fiction. Not necessarily ...
... It's hard to find since it's out of print and my library doesn't have it.
I'm adding Roger Zelazny This Immortal and Lord of Light and, also, Alexei Panshin's Rite of Passage for consideration next year. Stasia and I intend to do further reading in both SciFi and fantasy. If I find ...
... edited by Robert Silverberg.
If you want to stay with novels, how about some Roger Zelazny (perhaps This Immortal or Lord of Light )? Both are classics in the field.
If you wanted something that is ultra-fast to read, how about Alexei Panshin's Rite of Passage; it's a bit young ...
... Joe Haldeman
Cities in Flight, James Blish
The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester
Babel-17, Samuel R. Delany
Lord of Light , Roger Zelazny
The Fifth Head of Cerberus, Gene Wolfe
Gateway, Frederik Pohl
The Rediscovery of Man, Cordwainer Smith
Earth Abides, George R. Stewa ...
... R. Delany
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin
Galactic Patrol by E. E. "Doc" Smith
Lord of Light
Hey,
the "Group Zeitgeist" feature is enabled again, and did you see what our most shared book is ?
Lord of Light
... Books with a couple of dollars in pocket and nabbed the third Robot City: Robots and Aliens book, as well as Zelazny's Lord of Light , which I'll hopefully get to in time for the 1001Fantasy challenge.
This list is highly fluid, but this year at least I plan on reading:
Heart of Bronze by Matthew Stover
Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch (and its sequel)
The Dark Lord Trilogy by James Luceno/Matthew Stover (I own the individual books)
There Are D ...
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
Light by M. John Harrison
The Speed of Dark by E ...
... My Destination)
Serpent's Reach
Old Man's War
The Forever War
The Man in the High Castle
Stand on Zanzibar
Lord of Light
oh and then there was that one... what was it called?
I finished Lord of Light . It was interesting, there was a lot of thought provoking stuff in there and it was very clever but I'm afraid I didn't enjoy it very much. It confused me too much at the beginning and I never quite got in the swing of things. The structure was interesting, in that it ...
... SF that is not Christian-themed. I barely need to mention Dune, which borrows heavily from Islamic mythology, and Lord of Light , which utilises Hindu mythology. One of my favourite books, Star Maker, could not possibly be categorised into any normal theology.
Certainly, there is ...
I finished The Secret of Lost Things today. I'm reading Lord of Light for a book club but struggling with it a bit, so will keep something else going alongside it. I'll probably go fo Cold Comfort Farm.
... great fun to get to know them as she grows up.
It's been a slow reading week really so I'm still only halfway through Lord of Light and then I move on to the rest of my library backlog, which is now organised by due date. I expect there will be a fair number of renewals along the way ...
Thank you :) I'd be very interested in his story if you don't mind filling me in.
I'm now reading Lord of Light for my book club. My first impression was that it's really odd! However I'm hanging in there and now I'm getting a bit more of an idea of what's going on I'm getting into it a bit ...
... last week was a bit manic so I didn't get much reading done - hoping for more time on it this week! I also need to start Lord of Light for my book club this weekend.
... books I know that the following works were also published in "round corner edition":
*Flowers for Algernon
*Gateway
*Lord of Light
*The Dispossessed
*The Forever War
*The Sirens of Titan
*The Stars My Destination
My question is twofold. Firstly does anyone know if there ...
... books down, and wound up coming home with another two. Oh well, it was worth a try...
Anyway, I have now brought home Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny and Camelot's Shadow by Sarah Zettel.
... Star Fox Anderson
Stars are also fire Anderson
What mad Universe Fredric Brown
(and a collection with "arena" in)
Lord of Light Roger Zelazny
Solaris Sainlaw Lem
Jagged Orbit John Brunner
Sheep Look Up John Brunner
Fountains of Paradise Arthur C Clarke
Away and Beyond A E ...
... of Amber . So I went to have a look.
It was a mess. For example, Lord of Light isn't an Amber book at all, yet I can't seem to take it out of the series. And the rest of the "series" could usefully be deleted, and the Chronicles series ...
... of Others by Julie E. Czerneda
Harlan Ellison, the anthology Dangerous Visions
Damnation Alley and Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
Killer by David Drake & Karl Edward Wagner
Tomorrowlog and Agent of Change by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
4. Lord of Light - Roger Zelazny
I re-read this book mainly because I was curious whether or not it would stand up to a second read better than The City and the Stars.
Short answer is: it does. It really really does. For starters, it's far cleverer and more complex than The City and the S ...
... it's her portrayal of alien mindsets that wins out over some of her more political books that are all about humans.
10) Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny - This is as close as I come to treading into the fantasy turf...however, the book is still clearly science-based. Zelazny's mythic brand of ...
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But then you get to read The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin, Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner, Lord of Light (my sentimental favorite) by Roger Zelazny, and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein. I also think A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepn ...
... number of them out there if you end up liking this sub-genre.
It's even been done with science fiction. Roger Zelazny's Lord of Light layered Hindu mythology on top of science fiction; he did the same thing with Egyptian mythology in Creatures of Light and Darkness. I think the former ...
... 0830 - Hugo won under the title ".. And Call me Conrad". So if there is a leading 0 and no further comment i put 0701 -. Lord of Light
... of mars, Burroughs
More Than Human, Sturgeon
To live Again, Silverberg
Something wicked This Way Comes, Bradbury
Lord of Light , Zelazny
Plus a bunch of anthologies New Writings in SF 1, 10 and 22, Lambda 1, Orbit 2, Best Sf 4, The Hugo Award Winners 1963-1967 and 1968-1970 ...
I read Lord of Light a few days ago, and I think I will re-read it again Friday. I haven't decided on much else (fiction-wise) to read this month. Maybe tomorrow I will re-read Ubik.
This month has been sort of a lukewarm book interest month -- with my interests spanning only books I've ...
... before I will read it again. That said, for the first time in many years, I have reread some books.
Roger Zelazny's Lord of Light , Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep, Neal Stephenson's Snowcrash, Tim Powers' Last Call, William Gibson's Neuromancer, and Dan Simmo ...
... wis
Speaker for the dead by Orson Scott Card
Perelandra : a novel by C. S. Lewis
Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert
Lord of light by Roger Zelazny
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Creatures of Light and Darkness sort of does the same thing to Egyptian mythology that Lord of Light does to Hinduism. (I'm not comfortable using "mythology" to refer to a living religion -- or, rather, if I use it to refer to Hinduism I'm going to use it for Christianity too, which ...
... influenced by the former, so I'd read the older one first.
Zelazny's Creatures of Light and Darkness may qualify, if Lord of Light does, but it's been long enough that I don't remember much about it.
Almost anything by James Morrow, especially the so-called Godhead trilogy (starting ...
... the medium of SF.
Some good examples, in my opinion, are A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. and Lord of Light , by Roger Zelazny.
Would appreciate some more suggestions from the posters on here.
... God by Robert J. Sawyer
To Reign in Hell: A Novel by Steven Brust
Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
Celestial Matters by Richard Garfinkle
The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
The Tao of Pooh and the Te of Piglet by Benjamin Hoff
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The Hobbit, LOTR, Calvin’s Institutes, Zelazny’s Lord of Light , Carpenter’s Tolkien: A biography and Carpenter’s The Inklings are the only titles I’ve rated, and they all got 5 stars.
Highest Entry date – Oc ...
... Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, but I know that for others, that was their least favorite edition
- Roger Zelazny's Lord of Light should be on there
edited to add - wow, none of my touchstones seem to be working, but they're all showing up blue and correct in the box to the right ...
... of the Fancot twins but in the poker-faced courtship between their widowed mother and her corseted suitor.
142. Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
Cheerfully pulpy, horrifically punny, and fatally afraid that someone will label it as "fantasy."
143. Yendi by Steven Brust
It ...
Anyone ever read Lord of light by Roger Zelazny? An interesting use of Hindu mythology here ...
Message #20,TeenAuthor: I watch everything that Terry Gilliam directs ... his work is sometimes inconsistent, but always fascinating.
... at the stake for saying this.
A few personal favourites: The Forever War, I Am Legend, Babel-17, Earth Abides, Lord of Light , Flowers for Algernon.
If you haven't read 2001 I'd recommend it (or just about anything else by Arthur C. Clarke - read it, then double check the ...
... of principle by jules coleman
the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald
of mice and men by john steinbeck
lord of light by roger zelazny
ok i got a little carried away there... sorry... was having fun :x
the light fantastic by terry pratchett
lord of light by roger zelazny
sea of silver light by tad williams
a flash of lightning in the dark of night by the dalai lama
looking at philosophy: the unbearable heaviness of philosophy made lighter by donald palmer
... was there on Day One!
I always find it interesting what people leave in books that they have donated. For example, in Lord of Light I found a dark photo of a woman standing under a huge architectural arch, with water and palm trees... where was she? Why was it still in the book?
In Ove ...
... sci-fi in mind I would have to say Frank Herbert.
Roger Zelazny comes to mind for the Amber Chronicles and for Lord of Light , which I really like, even tho it has a hindu theme, and I'm a stuffy conservative presbyterian. *grin*
Everyone's responses to this topic not only give me ...
... The Stars My Destination grabbed me as much as the others, but it was certainly a good book. I've just started reading Lord of Light .
Oh, and while I'm on the subject, another fantastic book, albeit a little short (I read the whole thing on a train journey from Paris to London the other ...
I'm generally more interested in reading the next book as opposed to rereading something, but Lord of Light is book I tend to look over every few years.
So far this year, I have read:
*Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
Redwall by Brian Jacques
Many Waters by Madeleine L'Engle
An Acceptable Time by Madeleine L'Engle
*Conrad's Fate by Diana Wynne Jones
*The Grand Tour by Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Steverm ...
Lord of Light is a good book. Confusing, though.
I probably will reread it someday , and will understand it better then.
... A Wind in the Door a while back, and that one's quite scientific. At least - so far as I remember... Oh dear.
I have Lord of Light on my shelf. Might need to try it sometime.
... in Amber, and the first 5 (I think it's 5) are the best - and A Night in the Lonesome October, which is delightful. Lord of Light is famous, and a good read, but slow going and tough. I probably won't read it again soon.
... Polly series, but An Acceptable Time is vaguely connected to Meg, so I guess it could be the link.
The odd book out is Lord of Light . I've never read anything by Zelazny, actually. And the ones I'm going to read are The Grand Tour - assuming I like Sorcery and Cecelia, which I may ...
I haven't read Ilium as yet and hadn't really considered Lord of Light as you say, because of the 'kind of' thing.
Maybe not exactly what you're looking for, but how about Lord of light by Roger Zelazny and Ilium by Dan Simmons?
Both are sci-fi novels in which main characters kind of act out the roles of some of the ancient gods ... Lord of light involves Hindu/Buddhism and was fantastic ... Ilium ...
... with an included challenge of 25 new-to-me books, and a total of 30,000 pages. An asterisk (*) denotes a new read.
1. *Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny (279)
From the back of the book:
A band of men has gained control of technology, made themselves immortal, and now rule their wodl as ...
... goal you want. Last year, my goal was 100. This year I'm going to be a lot busier, so my goal is 85.
So far, I've read:
Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny*
Redwall by Brian Jacques
Many Waters by Madeleine L'Engle
An Acceptable Time by Madeleine L'Engle
* denotes a ...
I was visiting my parents over the holiday and picked up some of my old books. I just finished Lord of Light (which I bought I don't know how long ago but never read) and I'm rereading Redwall now. Not sure if I'll pick out another reread (that I haven't read in 5 years or so) next or go to the ...
How about Zelazny's Lord Of Light ?
... Divine by Mistake by P.C. Cast, Malice in Maggody by Joan Hess, Warriors: Rising Storm by Erin Hunter, Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny, and The Individuated Hobbit: Jung, Tolkien and the Archetypes of Middle-Earth by Timothy R. O'Neill.
Now, in my own defense, I ...
I finished it yesterday. I liked it a lot - I have to rank it right up there with the Earthsea trilogy and Lord of Light , which are my other two favorites in the genre (after the Red Book of Westmarch, of course, which is in a class of its own).
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