Lord of Light

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Hugo and Nebula Readership Podcast

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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.    Want to skip a bit or jump to your favorite part?  Here are the time markers for this episode:   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