OT Zelazny will always be my favorite
Can you recommend any specific titles - I'm always looking for more good sci-fi. Right now I'm reading Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson which is generally quite good, with some moments of true brilliance scattered through it.
Just did a quick search on Zelazny and came across this delightfully wry piece.
The Agnostic's Prayer
(Roger Zelazny, Creatures of Light and Darkness, © 1969)
This is perhaps the most famous prayer in all of science fiction and fantasy, and yet it is also one of the most difficult to find. It dates back almost as far as Greg does...
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Insofar as I may be heard by anything, which may or may not care what I say, I ask, if it matters, that you be forgiven for anything you may have done or failed to do which requires forgiveness. Conversely, if not forgiveness but something else may be required to insure any possible benefit for which you may be eligible after the destruction of your body, I ask that this, whatever it may be, be granted or withheld, as the case may be, in such a manner as to insure your receiving said benefit. I ask this in my capacity as your elected intermediary between yourself and that which may not be yourself, but which may have an interest in the matter of your receiving as much as it is possible for you to receive of this thing, and which may in some way be influenced by this ceremony. Amen. |
