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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 and forever The Prince Who Was a Thousand.
But neither of these superhuman warriors is prepared for the strange and harrowing world of mortal life, and The Thing That Cries in the Night may well destroy not only their worlds, but all mankind.
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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About the Author
Roger Zelazny burst onto the SF scene in the early 1960s with a series of dazzling and groundbreaking short stories. He won his first of six Hugo Awards for Lord of Light, and soon after produced the first book of his enormously popular Amber series, Nine Princes in Amber. In addition to his Hugos, he went on to win three Nebula Awards over the course of a long and distinguished career. He died on June 14, 1995.
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“He was a poet, first, last, always. His words sang. He was a storyteller without peer. He created worlds as colorful and exotic and memorable as any our genre has ever seen.” (George R. R. Martin )
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- PublisherFaber & Faber
- Publication date1970
- ISBN 10 0571095542
- ISBN 13 9780571095544
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
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Hardcover. Condition: Poor. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. Ex-library. Binding poor. Text leaves wavy, affected in the past by dampness. Dust-jacket trimmed with loss of initial letters of each line from blurb on rear flap. Chips to dust-jacket. Library stamps, labels and markings. Loss of cloth along lower edges of boards. Paper tape reinforcement to gutters. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; First UK edition. 187, [1 (blank)] pages. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 199 x 125mm. "'Creatures of Light and Darkness' (1969) specifically repeats some of the effects of 'Lord of Light' in a desolate galactic milieu haunted by warring Ancient Egyptian deities, in this case Equipoisally unexplained, a confusingness that F Brett Cox argues in Roger Zelazny (2021) deliberately Parodies the New Wave with which he had been uneasily associated." - John Clute in "SF Encyclopedia" (online, accessed March 2024). Seller Inventory # 25694
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