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(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Thursday January 26 2017, @11:52PM
I like Amber, but Zelazny wrote so much more than that. He has several Hugo and Nebula Award winners: Lord of Light, This Immortal, and some short stories. A personal favorite is the short story For a Breath I Tarry. Sure, it's a blatant retelling of Faust, with the main character named Frost, but it's still fun all the same. I very much enjoyed the art discussion.
For those who've read Lord of Light, I have one nagging question. One of the characters picks a fight he knows he can't win, to send a message. To whom and what the message was is not revealed, and I've long wondered what it could be. The other characters can't figure that one out either, and can't ask him because he didn't survive the fight. However they didn't spend much time on that subject. Maybe an astute reader can figure it out? Anyone have any idea? I have several guesses.
(Score: 2) by termigator on Friday January 27 2017, @04:47PM
I have Lord of Light, but have yet to read it, so cannot help you on your question. Actually, I think I strated to read it when I was very young, but never finished it. Maybe time to try again ;)
I know of his other works since I own several of his books. My mom allowed me to join the science fiction book club when I was in grade school, so I amassed a modest science fiction and fantasy collection since the late 70s (she eventually gave me the books she had purchased). At the time, the club was a way to get past works of the classic writers. Have not been part of the club in a long time. Got disinterested in the later offerings and the rise of Internet commerce made it obsolete.
(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Friday January 27 2017, @06:23PM
Lord of Light does have a reputation as a difficult book. At the start, Zelazny dives right into the middle of the story, and for a while the poor reader has little to no idea what's going on. Readers unfamiliar with Zelazny's penchant for telling stories out of chronological order, or awareness of fashionable literary devices, won't know to suspect this is another of those, which it is. Nor will the unfamiliar reader quite be able to tell immediately if this one is hard core fantasy or not. In Zelazny's Creatures of Light and Darkness, the characters are the gods and demigods of the Egyptian pantheon who sometimes use devices that are not clearly wholly magical or wholly scientific. Lord of Light features the Hindu pantheon. There are clues which are much clearer in hindsight, but I'll say no more, don't want to spoil the story for you.
(Score: 2) by archfeld on Sunday January 29 2017, @02:16AM
Another favorite is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_Hound_and_the_World's_Pain [wikipedia.org] by Michael Moorcock, and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job:_A_Comedy_of_Justice [wikipedia.org] by Robert Heinlein.
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