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Original Title:	Creatures of Light and Darkness
ISBN:	0380011220 (ISBN13: 9780380011223)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Wakim, Anubis, Osiris, The Red Witch, Horus (God), Madrak, Vramin, The Prince Who Was A Thousand, Typhon (mythology)

Creatures of Light and Darkness Paperback | Pages: 192 pages

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Title	:	Creatures of Light and Darkness
Author	:	Roger Zelazny
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 192 pages
Published	:	August 1st 1986 by Avon Books (first published July 1969)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Science Fiction. Fiction. Mythology. Science Fiction Fantasy

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Two gods, two houses, one quest and the eternal war between life and death. To save his kingdom, Anubis, Lord of the Dead, sends forth his servant on a mission of vengeance. At the same time, from The House of Life, Osiris sends forth his son, Horus, on the same mission to destroy utterly & forever The Prince Who Was a Thousand. But neither of these superhuman warriors is prepared for the strange & harrowing world of mortal life. The Thing That Cries in the Night may well destroy not only their worlds, but all humankind. As Zelazny did with the Hindu pantheon in the legendary, groundbreaking classic Lord of Light, the master storyteller here breathes new life into the Egyptian gods with another dazzling tale of mythology and imagination.

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Between poetry, SF and acid trip... The plot is somewhat hard to follow, but you can very well read the book without that. The story works like a kind of impressionist painting, where every short chapter acts as an image rather than a plot fragment. We never learn whose point of view it is and the heroes remain mysterious. As for the plot, it is quite different from the typical SF plot that tries to be extra coherent to compensate for the lack of realism of the setting. Here the characters have

These words that are constructed in sentences which are contained within this book that I am reading yesterday cannot be framed in my mind. The reader, who is me, finishes the book yesterday, but the torture is still in his mind at this moment, which is now of time. What is within those pages is a mystery that is not comprehensible. The reader, who is me, reads this thing, this tiny monster of a book with black holes of sense within every sentence, he reads this thing last week, this week,

Zelaznys stories often leave me scratching my MENTAL JUNK searching for a new means to describe his impressive creative chops. Well, after several brain limbering exercises, I came up with COSMICaweTASTIC SUPERBitude to describe this lesser known but amazing piece. I'm not sure exactly what it means but I think it's something positive. This is certainly one of Zelaznys more creative works, which is really saying something given his penchant to WTF his reader with bizarre and unique imagery. As

Nutshell: standard Z mess with immortals & incomprehensible occurrences.Volume is sealed by a dedication to Delany, and the text is reminiscent of The Einstein Intersection.Concerned with the Heliopolitan Ennead: Isis, Osiris & their son Horus; Set & Nephthys; Anubis (offspring of Osiris & Nephthys), and Thoth (son of Set in some variants). Greek Typhon shows up; in Kemetic, Typhon is equated to Seth, but here Typhon is Apophis, possessing qualities of the Abyss (155). Some other

Zelazny was one of the cleverest of the SF writers emergiing from the 1960s, in the stew of New Wave, and also one of the gutsiest. "Creatures of Light and Darkness" is his riff on Egyptian mythology, set in a "future" wherein the ancient conflicts of the various gods---Anubis, Osiris, Set, Thoth, Isis, and Typhon---are once more met in an ageless attempt to establish who's in charge.But wait! It's not quite that simple. Set the Destroyer is not just the Egyptian god, but partly Vishnu, who is

I will accept on faith that there is a wonderful, exciting story in this book that would become clearer on third or fourth reading. All my friends say so. I occasionally detected glimmers of a story on my first and only reading of the book as well. There's a bunch of Egyptian gods fighting (with what--swords, phasers, machine guns, bolts of magic--who knows) on a couple different worlds, including a world that hangs upside down. It was created by a character named Thousand Years Old, or

The story revolves mainly around the man called Wakim, the servant of Anubis whom he trained for a thousand years. Wakim's quest is to slay the mysterious man known as the Prince Who Was a Thousand. The House of the Dead, then, sends forth its emissary while the House of Life, led by Osiris, also sends its emissary, Horus, for the same task. I really liked the characters even though the story was quite confusing to follow and sometimes tedious. The characters are brilliantly written especially