Series
Lord of Light
Roger Zelazny, Shariann Lewitt & Steve Perry · 1 novel · 2 novelettes · 2 short stories · 1967–2017
Lord of Light is Roger Zelazny's 1967 science fantasy novel about the surviving crew of a colonizing starship who use salvaged technology and mind-transfer to make themselves effectively immortal, then rule their colony for a thousand years under the guises of Hindu gods. One of their own, called Sam, breaks with the pantheon to return forbidden knowledge to the ordinary people they rule, touching off a war among the self-styled gods. A standalone novel, it won the 1968 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
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Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
Lord of Light at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
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By decade
- 1960s3
- 1970s0
- 1980s0
- 1990s0
- 2000s0
- 2010s2
Shape
1 novel · 2 novelettes · 2 short stories
3 authors
reads like:science fantasygodsother star systemsfar futureadventurousadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book3 of 5 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Lord of Lightdarkest · calmest
- Dawnbrightest · most intense