LORD OF LIGHT
by Zelazny, Roger
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- A touch of rubbing to extremities, a fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket, touch of rubbing to spine ends and corners, the ver
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About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1967. First edition. A touch of rubbing to extremities, a fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket, touch of rubbing to spine ends and corners, the verso of the jacket had been re-enforced with small piece of cello-tape (now gone) at the corners, stains remain to interior with light bleed through at spine ends. (11454). Octavo, cloth. Author's signature laid in. 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.
Synopsis
Lord of Light (1967) is an epic science fiction/fantasy novel by American author 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. The context of the novel – modern western characters in a Hindu-Buddhist myth-infused world – is reflected in the book's opening lines:
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- Bookseller
- John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11454
- Title
- LORD OF LIGHT
- Author
- Zelazny, Roger
- Book Condition
- Used - A touch of rubbing to extremities, a fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket, touch of rubbing to spine ends and corners, the ver
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1967
- Keywords
- SF . SF Award . Signed
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