Editing Lord of Light (section)

{{Short description|1967 novel by Roger Zelazny}}
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{{Infobox book
| name          = Lord of Light
| title_orig    =
| translator    =
| image         = LordofLight(Zelazny).jpg
| caption       = Cover of first edition (hardcover)
| author        = [[Roger Zelazny]]
| illustrator   =
| cover_artist  = Howard Bernstein
| country       = United States
| language      = English
| series        =
| genre         = [[Science fantasy]]
| published     = 1967 [[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]]
| media_type    = Print (hardback & paperback)
| pages         = 257  
| oclc          = 6446183
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}}
'''''Lord of Light''''' (1967) is a [[science fantasy]] novel by American author [[Roger Zelazny]]. It was awarded the 1968 [[Hugo Award]] for [[Hugo Award for Best Novel|Best Novel]],<ref name="WWE-1968">{{cite web
| url = http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1968
| title = 1968 Award Winners & Nominees
| work = Worlds Without End
| access-date=2009-09-27
}}</ref>  and nominated for a [[Nebula Award]] in the [[Nebula Award for Best Novel|same category]].<ref name="WWE-1967">{{cite web
| url = http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=1967
| title = 1967 Award Winners & Nominees
| work = Worlds Without End
| access-date=2009-09-26
}}</ref> Two chapters from the novel were published as novelettes in the ''[[Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction]]'' – "Dawn" in April 1967, and "Death and the Executioner" in June 1967.

Zelazny noted that ''Lord of Light'' was written so that it could be taken as a science fiction or a fantasy novel. The context of the novel is modern western characters in a Hindu-Buddhist-influenced world.