Lord of Light

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Summary: I can't believe this book is out of print
Review: If you loved Amber series, you have to read this book. Only 19 reviews for one of the best SF ever written?

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Summary: My favorite book of all time
Review: I've read science fiction since the third grade, and I've read alot. I am now in my early forties and have recently reread Lord of Light. It is still my favorite book. It is thought provoking, full of colorful characters, and as is often the case in Zelazny's books, it has a reluctant hero/protagonist (Sam/Buddah) whose primary attribute is his humanity. Ultimately, Sam's heroism is demonstrated by his ability to convince his peer's of their own ties to humanity.

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Summary: An incredibly thought provoking and insightful book!
Review: I've read this book twice. I wish I had read it twenty times because now I've lost it and can't find it anywhere. Regardless, the story stays with me and I have often day dreamed about its premise. If I ever run accros it again I won't let it go.

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Summary: One of the best books i have ever read
Review: Lord of Light is an excellent book. As good as anything Zelazny has written. I have read most of his works. Unlike most of the other people who have posted their reviews of this book, I have only read it once(recently). But I plan on rereading it soon maybe in a year or so. It is a hard book to explain it should just be read. I would suggest it to any SF fan. Also read the Amber series, it is the best series ever written.

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Summary: The best SF novel I've read!!!
Review: About six years ago, I found "Lord of light" in local bookstore in Korea. The title of that Korean language version had meaning of "The society of Gods". Anyway, this book was so amazing that I read this book more than 5 times and became a big fan of Roger Zelazny. As I have read his books, I have become disappointed, because my first Roger Zelazny book, "Lord of Light", is the best novel except his amber series that I haven't read. I hope to have a chance to buy new English version "Lord of light".

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Summary: Enlightened.
Review: My favourite book. What more can I say? :)

I think this book contains more insights about people, technology, religion and ethics than virtually any other I have read. The first time, read it for the action and story. The second time, for the ideas behind it. Then, read it once more for sheer enjoyment.

Above all: READ IT!

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Summary: One of the best SF novels of all time
Review: This novel had a tremendous influence on me when I first read it over twenty years ago. Like the Iliad, like War and Peace, it is one of those few great stories that I keep coming back to reread every several years. It is a deeply humane book that truly moves the spirit.

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Summary: Your Majesty is like a big jam doughnut w/cream on the top.
Review: War and Peace gets straight tens, but even that to me is not necessarily proper. Lord of Light is a book I have always remembered, first reading in ~1974 as a teenager. Reread it several times. Like Finnegans Wake, its end ties into its beginning, so that the novel is a circle, mirroring circular time, recurrence, etc..

Perhaps it was my youth, but the book had a great effect on me. The characters were memorable, even the Tathagatha, (Sam), once I got to know him after the 2nd or third reading.

I won't summarize the plot, but perhaps what causes us to remember it after all these years, (and who would put this o.o.p., by the way?), is the strong sense of reality the book has despite its surreal setting, and our sympathy for a man who - if memory serves - is trying to do what is right despite opposition, and doing a good job at it, too.

Well, I hope that I have been reviewing the right book, it has been over 20 years after all. As for the nine, the Tathagatha would approve of my "seeing how the countercurrent would flow." (Just between us, I give it an unofficial 10!)

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Summary: One of my all time favorites.
Review: I read this book in 1989. I have read only a handful of books that were written as well. I am an advid s/f fantasy reader, and have read perhaps close to a thousand novels. This one,still,is remembered fondly.

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Summary: The best SF novel I have ever read.
Review: I just finished sending these comments to one of this novel's previous publishers -- as part of a longer letter imploring them to republish what is certainly one of Science Fiction's few legitimate masterpieces. Perhaps others who feel strongly can do likewise. ----- "Lord of Light" is, without question, one of the great Science Fiction books ever written. In 1967 it won the most prestigious award in the genre -- Hugo, for novel of the year -- at a time when Science Fiction may have been at its artistic peak. More important, in the years since a great number of science fiction fans have read, re-read, and loved the novel, classifying it along with "Dune," "Stranger in a Strange Land," "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress," "The Mote in God's Eye" and a handful of others books that can legitimately contend for the title "Best SF Novel Ever Written." As you may surmise, it gets my vote. My copy is paperback. It's torn and tattered and the spine is bent -- it dates from the 1960s after all -- but I've read it many times and woudn't consider getting rid of it unless I had a better copy. I was intending, however, to nominate the book to a reading club I've joined, for reading and group discussion in one of the coming months. Finding it out of print, frankly, left me shocked and a bit baffled. This is a MAJOR science fiction novel by a MAJOR author! Furthermore, like "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" and "The Little Prince," it touches something special in the hearts of people. That isn't something every book does after thirty two years. I learned that "Lord of Light" was out of print when I looked for it on AMAZON.COM. Amazon has a policy of letting readers post reviews about the books they've read. The site has both good and bad reviews for nearly everything. "Lord of Light," however, is an exception like I've never seen. It was rated a "10" in every review. I've captured all of them, and they're attached to this e-mail unedited, so please judge for yourself. It boils down to this: Please consider re-publishing Roger Zelazny's science fiction masterpiece. It has been unavailable for too long.