Lord of Light (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Roger Zelazny
- First Published: 1967
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—superbeing
- Time of Work: An indeterminate time in the future
- Setting: The planet Urath
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: Immortality, Future, Other worlds, Hindus or Hinduism, Buddha
- Locales: Fictional planets
The Plot
Each chapter in Lord of Light is introduced by two headings. The first is unidentified but appears to be an excerpt from a secular history giving a factual, if sanitized, version of events on planet Urath (a corrupted spelling of Earth). The second heading is an excerpt from one of several Hindu holy books, primarily the Upanishads. It relates the same events from the first heading but in mythologized and highly symbolic language. Only after the reader gets two different, but equally valid, perspectives on the story are the events presented in narrative...
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