Lord of Light

Lord of Light (1968) is an epic science fiction/fantasy novel by Roger Zelazny. It was awarded the 1968 Hugo Award for Best Novel, and nominated for a Nebula Award in the same category. Two chapters from the novel were published as novelettes in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1967.

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Epic - Science fiction - Fantasy - Novel - Roger Zelazny - Hugo Award - Best Novel - Nebula Award - In the same category - Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction

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Where his previous works such as ...And Call Me Conrad and The Dream Master cast science-fiction themes into a mythic mold, Lord of Light is the first in Zelazny's style of "anachronistic myth", one in which a mythical or legendary story has slight science-fiction underpinnings and features occurrences of 20th century American vernacular and habits, e.g. smoking cigarettes with Hindu gods, utterances such as "It's a long way to Tipperary", and "You fertility deities are worse than Marxists!", or the contest between two characters called "Irish Stand-down" where they take turns punching each other until one collapses.

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...And Call Me Conrad - The Dream Master

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