“I grew up in a blue-collar neighborhood. And you know, nobody was expected to be a novelist—that was not a thing, that was not a choice in my neighborhood. And when I made that choice, it was very strange to people. And it was a really hard thing for people to accept and my father […]
Today, the Western world views India as the maligned home of tech support call centers, a nuclear power, and the “I” in BRIC. When Roger Zelazny wrote Lord of Light back in the ’60s, it was still the exotic subcontinent. The Beatles went there seeking enlightenment and Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha was a staple in every college bookstore. Zelazny took that […]