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Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
3.0

I'll be honest, I had no idea what was going on most of the time, but here's what I gleaned:

In the future, a select group of individuals make themselves powerful enough to become gods, primarily taking on the roles of various Hindu deities.  They do what pantheons of gods always do - fight and disagree and love and act ultimately pretty human.

Zelazny wrote this in a way that feels similar to some of the old religious epics - vignette-style stories, with a smattering of philosophical prose.  References to Epic People and Epic Events that we may or may not hear about, etc.  It's not my favorite style, and I felt my lack of knowledge of Hindu writings, in particular, while trying to understand this.

It's an interesting idea, though.