- Mass Market Paperback
- Publisher: Avon (1976)
- ASIN: B001JGT1NG
- Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 10.7 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 159 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (87 customer reviews)
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His followers called him Mahasamatman and said he was a god. Read the first page
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Karma Chameleons of the far future,
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This review is from: Lord Of Light (Paperback)
This story is one of my favourites from way long ago when it first came out and I was a hipppie college student who had graduated after doping out dropping acid and flashing back.It holds up astonishingly well. I read it again with great pleasure as various people inhabiting the aspects and powers of ancient Hindu gods struggle in a revolution against Heaven. And Heaven ain't all that heavenly either. Build up your Karma account and read this one, O you of the 99 percent. Then revolt against this version of the far future that just might become possible. Good Karma, this book.
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deep science fiction,
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This review is from: Lord Of Light (Paperback)
Humanity defeats the native "energy" beings that populated the orb and establishes a colony on the planet with a Hindu like societal order. Using advanced technology, the crew of the ship transfers their minds into a new body when theirs is near death. They also develop other advances that enable them to form a pantheon with god-like powers. Beneath them are the colonists and even further below in this pyramid of power are the natives. No one bucks the leadership as not only can they technology reincarnate they can convert others into animals.One of these techno-Gods, preferring to be called Sam rather than Mahasamatman, feels that the mistreatment of others is morally wrong. He thinks that he and his peers should share their technology with the lower strata. His peers insist those beneath them are incapable of dealing with godlike powers and need their hand to guide them. Sam never claimed the mantle and though he hates what he feels he must do, this "fallen angel" leads a revolt against his ruling brothers and sisters as he wants to establish a different world order. This is a deep science fiction novel with religious and social overtones. The story line is loaded with action, but also takes its time to defend critical arguments set forth by author Roger Zelazny. The cast fosters the concepts of the plot so that development is targeted more towards an idea than a character. Still with all that this is a cerebral tale that will have readers pondering a host of subjects from comparative religions to white man's burden to fostering American style democracy in Iraq, etc. in a clever novel that will require concentration or one will miss a point. Harriet Klausner
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Can't say I've read anything better in my entire life,
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This review is from: Lord of Light (Mass Market Paperback)
Lord of Light is without a doubt, one of the best things I've read (and I've read a LOT, believe me).I highly recommend this great masterpiece to every serious Sci-Fi/Fantasy fan out there, along with Gibson's Neuromancer, Orwell's 1984, Herbert's Dune (1-6), Harrison's The Hammer and The Cross trilogy - ones of the best novels ever written.
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