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... 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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Average rating: (5 Stars)
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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