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A review by pufforrohk
Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
5.0
Rereading the Lord of Light I found it as weird and wonderful as I remembered.
In a distant world colonists from Earth have engineered themselves into immortality, taking the appearance of gods from the Induist pantheon and blocking access to technology among the population. Sam, a first-generation colonist, fight them by recreating the Buddist religion to fight their control over the population.
While technically science fiction, it reads like an epic from mythology. Because of the style in which is written and the incredible sense of history of the world it describes, it feels closer to the Silmarillion than any science fiction I've read.
In a distant world colonists from Earth have engineered themselves into immortality, taking the appearance of gods from the Induist pantheon and blocking access to technology among the population. Sam, a first-generation colonist, fight them by recreating the Buddist religion to fight their control over the population.
While technically science fiction, it reads like an epic from mythology. Because of the style in which is written and the incredible sense of history of the world it describes, it feels closer to the Silmarillion than any science fiction I've read.