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