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Earth is long since dead. On a colony planet, a band of men has gained control of technology, made themselves immortal, and now rules their world as the gods of the Hindu pantheon. Only one dares oppose them: he who was once Siddhartha and is now Mahasamatman. Binder of Demons. Lord of Light.
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About the Author
Roger Zelazny burst onto the SF scene in the early 1960s with a series of dazzling and groundbreaking short stories. He won his first of six Hugo Awards for Lord of Light, and soon after produced the first book of his enormously popular Amber series, Nine Princes in Amber. In addition to his Hugos, he went on to win three Nebula Awards over the course of a long and distinguished career. He died on June 14, 1995.
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Product details
Paperback: 306 pages
Publisher: Harper Voyager; Reprint edition (March 30, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0060567236
ISBN-13: 978-0060567231
Product Dimensions:
5.3 x 0.7 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 14.7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.5 out of 5 stars
283 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#51,747 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
I've been reading sci-fi and fantasy for at least 50 years. This is one of the best. The whole "tech class of the crashed star ship transforms themselves into the Hindu pantheon to rule the passenger-descended populace" scenario is unparalleled as a concept. Then, the great characters and the intricate flashback-flash forward plot fleshing out this "what if?" scenario should satisfy the most discriminating. Zelazny was a great writer, and this was his very best IMHO. Every seven years I read it again.
Even though I love most of Zelazny's work, and he's one of my favorite authors, I didn't enjoy this book. Here's why:PLOT SUMMARY-----------------------First, let me give a brief summary of the story. Feel free, however, to skip down to the part labeled "MY REVIEW".In our far future, but in the distant past of the book, a spaceship travels from Earth to a distant planet. They have incredibly advanced technology, and the crew members also have mutant mental abilities that are almost like magic. It's unclear to me how they obtained these abilities, but they are important. The crew also has the technology to transfer consciousness from one body to another, so everyone is effectively immortal provided they don't die unexpectedly (like the elves in LotR).The crew tames the planet and defeats existing life forms that are problematic. A human civilization arises. For some reason, however, this civilization is fairly primitive and doesn't have access to the crew's advanced technology. This goes on for hundreds or thousands of years.Sometime prior to the events in the book, the crew decides to set themselves up as gods named after the Hindu pantheon. Their technology and mutant powers allow them to essentially *be* gods, and they take to their roles so well that they often believe it themselves. But they have the ability to raise the primitive humans to their level. A disagreement breaks out among them as to whether or not this should be done, with "accelerationists" being the ones in favor of it.The opposition finds a simple way to completely eliminate the accelerationists. The opposition controls the body transfer facilities. Prior to being transferred, everyone is put through a sophisticated mind scan that detects any sympathy for accelerationism. If it exists, that person is not resurrected. Thus all of the accelerationists die off within a generation.The gods institute a Hinduism-based worship system among the primitives that includes karma. You have good karma if you believe the religion, think like the gods, and agree with their policies. At the age of 60, everyone goes to the temple and is mind-scanned to check their karma. If they pass and if they have a good record of donating, they are transferred into an upgraded body. If this continues over multiple lifetimes, they will eventually be raised to godhood as a demigod with the possibility of one day becoming a full-fledged god. As part the elevation, they receive a mutant ability (called an aspect). People with bad karma, however, are either transferred to a lesser body (possibly an animal) or not transferred at all. Thus the system perpetuates itself by only promoting people with the same mindset and removing people who are problematic.In an effort to enforce and maintain this system, the gods actively suppress any technological advances made by the primitives. For instance, if a printing press or telescope is invented, the gods punish that city and destroy it with their divine wrath.Into all this comes Sam, one of the original crew who's been keeping a low profile and isn't a god. By chance, he'd missed most of the purge, and at this point he doesn't appear to have strong opinions either way on accelerationism. But he's getting old and travels to a city for a body transfer. Here he learns about the pantheon, accelerationism, and the purge. As one of the First, he's offered the chance to immediately ascend to godhood, which he accepts (anything else would have been suicidal). But he's suspicious and substitutes someone else for his transfer. They give that person an epileptic body, confirming his suspicions. He had arrived in the city with a small army as an escort, and he uses it to take over the body transfer facility. He transfers himself and a few select people, steals the equipment, leaves the city, and goes into hiding.The gods are tyrannical, full of themselves, arrogant, and uncaring. Sam was not necessarily an accelerationist at the beginning of all this, but he is now. Actually, that's not quite correct. He's opposed to the gods and their tyranny, and since anti-accelerationism is a big part of that system he must necessarily become an accelerationist in order to oppose it. He's alone in this effort, however, so he adopts a subtle approach. His first tactic is to introduce Buddhism to the world. He becomes Buddha and preaches the religion which he remembers from Earth. By creating a second religion, especially a pacifistic one like Buddhism, he undermines the authority of gods in small ways.Then he attempts a direct attack using some of the original inhabitants of the planet that he'd helped subdue and imprison in the days after their arrival from Earth. Unfortunately they don't cooperate and sabotage his plan. He's captured by the gods and executed. He manages to survive, obtain a body, and masquerade himself as one of the other gods. He then allies with some gods who have become sympathetic to his cause, and they fight a final battle. They fail, and he is captured again. This time, rather than kill him, they transfer his consciousness into Nirvana (actually the magnetic field surrounding the planet) where he lives an incorporeal existence in paradise. He lost, but the gods are weakened by his efforts.After a number of years (50 or so), a group of disgraced gods retrieve him from his existence in orbit. By this time the gods have lost more of their power and authority due to Sam's efforts decades ago. One of the original crew who had left the pantheon in disgust has decided to wage war on the gods so he can spread his Christian beliefs without divine retribution. This leads to the "actual" final confrontation, where everything is resolved.MY REVIEW--------------------That's a pretty good plot. What I don't like is how it was written.When I was younger I tried to read this book (I mean, it's by Zelazny so it's got to be good). I eventually gave up and did not finish the story. More recently I heard that George R.R. Martin considers this to be one of the top five books ever written. And many people think this is Zelazny's best work. And it won the Hugo award. So I decided to give it another try.My primary complaint is that the pace is slow and I got bored. The only reason I finished is that I'd committed to reading the whole thing.To complicate things, you have to look between the lines to understand much of what's going on, because so much of it is religious/philosophical at face value. The truth is there, but sometimes you have to sift through stuff to find it. Zelazny seems to revel in this dualism: the face-value Buddhism and Hinduism vs. the technological science fiction. But I found it distracting. I didn't like having to work so hard for my information.There's a lot of subtlety in this book. And some original philosophy. And puzzle-solving. If you like those types of things, you'll most likely enjoy this book. But it's not for me.I don't recommend "Lord of Light", but you should probably read it anyway, because it's a classic in the science fiction genre.
Written in 1967, "Lord of Light" reads today as well as it did when it won the Hugo and Nebula awards. The thing that Zelazny has done is to take his time, infusing his book with contemplative moments and a purposely fake Hindu gloss, but without losing pace. He is willing to sacrifice a bit of reading ease for art, and it pays off handsomely. The very alien-ness of the situation, and of the attitudes of the characters, makes for a very engrossing, if somewhat hard to follow, read.The underlying conflict is simple, but the attitude that the essentially immortal characters bring to it is, while very different, still essentially human. Man's inhumanity to ... well ... everybody and everything is very much on display here. The book highlights small, all too human and overwhelmed, minds, and large, all too human, egos, in a game of celestial thrones.And, underlying it all is a believability of action and response. The situation is utterly alien, but we know people who react the way these people do. We're afraid that we too would react as badly in the same situations, or maybe we hope we would do as well. It's all a matter of perspective.
To do what Zelazny has done here with beauty, grace, and power is a masterpiece. Using SF to explore one most influential and dynamic parts of human history is an ambitious undertaking. Buddha and Hinduism have a relation that is depicted in this story, the reactionary nature Buddha against Hindu is realized. Using a great SF story to do is brilliant. In the course of doing the aspects of repression, totalitarianism, freedom are explored. I read several reviews of as one star. One reviewer indicated that it torture to read the few pages they and further said that if any liked it they had terrible taste. These people need to remember the Mario Brothers and first person shooters are not the height of cultural and the intellect standards. That fast pace and simpleton cookie cutter plots are just a way to placate the ignorant. Sam is an interesting character full of contradictions and anomalies yet remains true to his dream of a better life for the people. Like he said "I really never claimed to be a God nor did I deny it. No good would come from either."
This really is sci fi fantasy literature. It contemplates timeless and universal questions of evolution and religion and politics. All with a fairly unique backdrop of futuristic Hindu mysticism and Buddhism on another planet that is different and same as our own at the same time. There's a lot to chew on in this book. After finishing the book I went back and re-read the first chapter, as it is actually depicting events towards the end of the story.A knowledge of the Hindu pantheon or the tenants of Buddhism is not required to "get" the book, but it will certainly enrich your experience reading it. I have a very basic understanding of the Hindu gods and Buddhist practice and that was enough to understand the references in the book to those belief systems.Side note: the failed attempt at a film version of this book is the fake movie that was used to get the U.S. hostages out of Iran. It was re-titled "Argo" and bears no resemblance whatsoever to the hokey images presented in the Argo movie that Ben Affleck made. It is not, as they say in Argo, a cheap knock-off of Star Wars.
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