re: Help with a fantasy/sci fi/fiction reading recommendation

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I'd recommend Lord of Light as one of my favorite Sci Fi novels

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It's my favorite sci fi book, period. I love how he weaves together Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, and mythology into the story which is very complex in layout, but actually pretty straightforward once you start to figure things out. I finished it on Audible last week and I can't recommend the audio book. For some insane reason they chose an author that uses a southern drawl for several key characters and that makes zero sense for the setting of the book. Zelazny was friends with and influenced Neil Gaiman and George R.R. Martin who were just starting their careers. Gaiman's American Gods was somewhat a tribute to Zelazny. Supposedly the Amber series will be a TV series soon. Weirdly enough Lord of Light was the movie that the CIA was pretending to film in Iran in order to set up the hostage rescue/release. There really was a project to make the movie as well as build a theme park outside of Denver, but it had collapsed before the hostage crisis. Lord of Light would still make for a great mini-series.