One of the first, he who calls himself Sam, thinks that this is wrong, that technology should be shared, and that man should be free to believe anything he or she wants. The control system built by the first is built around a mishmash of Eastern religions, and now they have ended up believing their own preaching themselves - well, at least when it comes to the part that says that they are gods. Since then, the original first has used their control over high-technology to set themselves up as the local gods, using the promise of a new body and possible eternal life, to control the minions. Lord of Light takes place on a foreign world settled by humans a good many generations ago. Some of them are actually quite good! I don't think that I've ever read any Zelazny before, but his 1967 classic Lord Of Light is out in the SF Masterworks series from Orion, so why not. Reading classics, isn't exactly what I would call a duty, but one should remember to pick up a classic once in a while and see why it became a classic. Lord of Light is a science fiction novel written by Roger Zelazny.
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