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Lord of Light

  • Roger Zelazny

3.63

27 ratings

A colony of humankind is subjugated by the First Colonists, the crew of the starship that brought them to their new home 1000 years before. They have taken control of ancient technologies and enhanced themselves with godlike psychic powers and virtual immortality. Adopting the panoply of the venerable Hindu religion, they live lives as its Gods, surrounded by advanced technology within the trappings of a primitive civilization.

Our hero Sam, unready to battle the tyrannical forces of the Celestial City allied with his former wife, now the rapturous Kali, Goddess of Destruction. A story of the classic drama of power, love, honor, pride, and fantasy erupting in an epic war of the Gods and ultimate transcendence.

Genres

  • Fiction
  • Hindu Gods
  • Hugo Award Winner
  • Space colonies
  • award:hugo_award=1968
  • award:hugo_award=novel
  • Philosophy
  • Literature
  • Fiction, science fiction, general
  • American Science fiction
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About the author

  • Roger Zelazny

    13 May 1937 - 14 June 1995

    3.64

    261 ratings · 189 works

Editions

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    Ithaki Yayinlari

    Oct 29, 2000

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    W. Heyne

    1976

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    Ein Heyne Buch

    Jun 21, 1985

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    DENOEL

    Oct 23, 1984

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Doubleday & Co.

Aug 24, 1967

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    Panther

    1971

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    Faber and Faber

    May 31, 1968

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    Gollancz

    2010

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    Denoël

    1993

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    Denoël

    2009

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    Denoël

    June 15, 1999

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    New Ed edition

    Gollancz

    April 8, 1999

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    Panther

    1971

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    Avon Books

    1969

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    Gregg Press

    1979

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    Methuen

    1985

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    1st EOS trade pbk. ed.

    EOS

    2004

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    Orion Publishing Group, Limited

    2006

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    Orion Publishing Group, Limited

    1999

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    Avon Books

    1975-01-01

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    Doubleday

    1967-01-01

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    Facsimile of 1909 edition

    Minotauro

    May 2003

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    [Book Club ed.].

    Doubleday

    1967

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    Doubleday

    1967

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    Faber

    1968

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    Avon Books, Avon

    February 1987

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    [Book Club ed.].

    Doubleday & Co.

    1967