Discovering his true identity could change the fate of the universe.

In the House of the Dead, Anubis gives his resurrected servant a name: Wakim. But Wakim knows the name is not truly his—not the identity he carried in life, nor the key to the mysterious powers buried within him. Commanded by the Egyptian god of death to find and destroy the immortal being known as the Prince Who Was a Thousand, Wakim departs on a perilous journey across the Middle Worlds. Yet beneath his divine mission lies a deeply personal quest: to recover his lost memories, discover his true name, and uncover the secret of who—or what—he once was. But Wakim cannot know how the truth will overturn the balance between life and death, transforming him into something even the gods have reason to fear.

Told entirely in the present tense and incorporating poetry, drama, satire, and experimental prose, Creatures of Light and Darkness is a surreal, lyrical, and darkly humorous New Wave science-fantasy epic set in a far-future universe ruled by the gods of ancient Egypt. As Anubis and Osiris battle for dominion over the Houses of Death and Life, their cosmic war between creation and destruction becomes a profound exploration of identity, memory, mortality, power, and destiny. Immortal deities, angels, cyborgs, monsters, and resurrected warriors collide across strange planets and supernatural realms in Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Roger Zelazny’s audacious genre-bending fusion of Egyptian mythology, space opera, dark fantasy, Lovecraftian horror, and philosophical science fiction.

Perfect for fans of Tanith Lee, Samuel R. Delany, Gene Wolfe, Michael Moorcock, Jack Vance, and Philip José Farmer, as well as readers of lost-identity mysteries, amnesia dramas, mythical sci-fi, weird fiction, cosmic fantasy, divine warfare, time travel, Cosmicism, and reality-bending adventures. Ideal for libraries, book clubs, and collectors of vintage speculative fiction.

"A storyteller without peer. He created worlds as colorful and exotic and memorable as any our genre has ever seen."  –George R.R. Martin

". . . his performance was never anything other than dazzling."  –Robert Silverberg

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