Who is Sam? This is the podcast where two sisters are reading their way through the Hugo and Nebula awarding novels in order. In this episode, they discuss The Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny which won the Hugo award for 1968. The general theme for the discussion will be us questioning everything we think we read in the book. 

 

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01:44 Book’s Blurb 

04:03 History Lesson 

08:47 Big Questions: so many questions

12:54 The Characters: who has what name when 

19:00 General confusion: which last a while

25:13 The battles: loops and reincarnations 

28:52 Feminist Rant 

34:52 Religion: Mix and match parables and accelerationism

42:50 Hellwell

44:00 The Ending: more confusion and potty jokes and murder mysteries

54:24 Four questions 

 

Music by Carl Miles