Review: Creatures of Light and Darkness, Roger Zelazny

[jeriendhal]

Zelazny: Shit, man. I won a Hugo for Lord of Light. (puffs on a toke.)

Z's Agent: Dude, sales were good. You need to do something just like it. Pass me that shit, would ya?

Zelazny: Yeah. How about one with the Egyptian pantheon this time? Horus vs. Anubis. Except it'll be, like, epic because it'll be on a whole bunch of planets that won't make much sense, instead of just one that sorta did.

Z's Agent: I dunno, dude.

Zelazny: Take another hit, man. (passes him the toke again)

Z' Agent: Duuuuuuuude, go for it.

Comments

[countrycousin.livejournal.com]

Works for me.

(Creatures of Light and Darkness is not one of my favorites. I picked up a copy recently to see if reading it for its own sake rather than immediately coming off a Lord of Light high would improve my reaction. Yeah, a little bit.)

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

It seemed to be a case of Zelazny coasting after Lord of Light. LoL was a straight sci-fi re-interpetation of the Siddartha. Once I realized what he was doing it made perfect sense. CoLaD was just a confusing mess.

[cartoonmayhem.livejournal.com]

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