Lord of Light
Roger Zelazny · 1967
Future colonists have appropriated Hindu mythology and used technology to become gods. Zelazny's most ambitious novel blends SF and mythology so thoroughly the seams vanish, and Sam's war against heaven is the most stylish revolution in SF.
The case against
Zelazny opens in the middle, flashes back for five chapters without warning, and the basic sequence of events stays scrambled until a second pass. Hindu and Buddhist theology gets worn as costume jewelry over a standard SF power struggle, the women are decorative, and one entire chapter exists to set up a single groaning pun.
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