Creatures of Light and Darkness Roger Zelazny
Publisher: Avon Books

Since a gene pattern can be constructed to satisfy the parents' specific wishes and substituted surgically for the nucleus of a fertilized cell, she is liable to see anything born and often does. If humans were truly at home under the light of the moon and stars, we would go in darkness happily, the midnight world as visible to us as it is to the vast number of nocturnal species on this planet. Against this backdrop, Ben Hawkins and Brother Justin Crowe are learning their true natures and destinies as creatures of Light and Dark – avatars of God and satan, born into each generation. Whether by accident, design or collective unconscious mind-meld, the second annual festival suggested light winking from distant stars, light on the bodies of deep-sea creatures, light defined by the darkness around it. Add the fleeting twilight nights (we get maybe 4 hours of complete full dark at that time of year) and the pervasive random weirdness—you can go shopping dressed as a Dalek or a 17th century French aristocrat and . Hence, of course the Eschaton's perfectly-reasonable (for certain values of "reasonable") prohibition on violating the light-cone rule. Creatures of Light and Darkness. He is put to a test here by these beings so they can decide if he is the fulfillment, one that requires he tame both the creatures of light and darkness, and he passes. In the early part of his career, and in an indirect sense throughout it, Roger Zelazny combed Earth's cultures, religions, and legends for story material. Background Information: A novel by Roger Zelazny, a renowned science fiction author. Despite routine references to crazy powers and an epic light versus dark struggle, Beautiful Creatures is a bland film experience that is surprisingly devoid of actual movie magic.