Lord of Light
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · March 30, 2010
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- Genres
- Sci-Fi, Space Opera
- Published
- HarperCollins, March 30, 2010
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“Funny, wise, and infused with a sense of wonder and knowledge….Nobody else made myths real and valuable in the way Roger Zelazny could.” —Neil Gaiman Lord of Light is a classic tale of the far future from the incomparable Roger Zelazny.
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Winner of the Hugo Award—one of six Zelazny received over the course of his legendary career, as well as three Nebula Awards and numerous other honors—Lord of Light stands with Joe Haldeman’s The Forever War and Frank Herbert’s Dune as one of the seminal novels that changed the way readers looked at science fiction. Experience it and you will understand why New York Times bestselling sf author Greg Bear says, “Reading Zelazny is like dropping into a Mozart string quartet as played by Thelonius Monk.”
Where it sits
| Space Opera | 61% |
|---|---|
| Sci-Fi | 50% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- The Classics
- Epic Fantasy
- Literary Fiction
- Faith & Fiction
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- Space Opera
- Genetic Engineering Sci-Fi
- Space Exploration Fiction
- Suspense
- Authors
- Unknown author
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- March 30, 2010
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- The Classics