LORD OF LIGHT

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1967. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with a touch of shelf wear to lower right front corner, tiny rub spot to front panel, two light blue horizontal lines on the verso of the jacket (offset from a previous jacket protector) with slight bleed through, noticeable on the rear panel. A sharp, bright fresh copy. (14662). Octavo, cloth. Hugo award winner 1968, Nebula nominee, 1967. "...his most sustained single tale, richly conceived and plotted, exhilarating throughout its considerable length. Some of the crew of a human colony ship, which has deposited its settlers on a livable world, have made use of advanced Technology (including Identity Transfer) to ensconce themselves in the role of gods, selecting their role models from the Hindu pantheon, including a fatally attractive She figure. But where Hinduism flourishes, the Buddha - in the shape of the protagonist Sam - must follow; and his liberation of the humans of the planet, who are mortal descendants of the original settlers, takes on aspects of both Prometheus and Coyote the Trickster. At points, Sam may seem just another of Zelazny's stable of slangy, raunchy, over-loved immortals; but the end effect of the book is liberating, wise, lucid." - Clute (ed.), SFE online. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1310. Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 162. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1251-56.