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Picture a planet where gods walk as men, but wield vast and hidden powers. Here they have made the stage on which to build a subtle pattern of alliance, love, and deadly eternity. For the rivalry between Light and Dark will last as long as the immortal contestants themselves. Or are they immortal? Who are these gods who rule the destiny of a teeming world?
Their names include Brahma, Kali, Krishna, Ratri, and also he who was called Buddha, Lord of Light, Siddharta. But how did he also acquire the name of Sam? Here too is his antithesis, the deathgod Yama. Yet it is Yama who calls the spirit of Sam back into bodily form at the start of this epic narrative.
Here is fantasy writing of the highest calibre - Zelazny at his unsurpassable best.
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Book Details
First Sentence
"It is said that fifty-three years after his liberation he returned from the Golden Cloud, to take up once again the gauntlet of Heaven, to oppose the Order of Life and the gods who ordained it so."
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Originally published, Garden City , Doubleday, 1967 , London , Faber, 1968.
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"His followers called him Mahasamatman and said he was a god."
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A colony of humankind is subjugated by the First Colonists, the crew of the starship that brought them to their new home 1000 years before. They have taken control of ancient technologies and enhanced themselves with godlike psychic powers and virtual immortality. Adopting the panoply of the venerable Hindu religion, they live lives as its Gods, surrounded by advanced technology within the trappings of a primitive civilization.
Our hero Sam, unready to battle the tyrannical forces of the Celestial City allied with his former wife, now the rapturous Kali, Goddess of Destruction. A story of the classic drama of power, love, honor, pride, and fantasy erupting in an epic war of the Gods and ultimate transcendence.
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