# Can someone ID this fantasy book?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-id-this-fantasy-book/947461
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Tags:** books-writing-myths
**Created:** [July 27, 2021, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-id-this-fantasy-book/947461 "2021-07-27T22:45:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2021, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-id-this-fantasy-book/947461/1 "2021-07-27T22:45:54Z")
Been trying to remember this book I read when I was a kid, where all the gods of all the different pantheons existed, but they couldn’t agree on who got to control the world, so they each picked mortal champions, put them all in one place, and made them kill each other to see which god got to be in charge
I’ve been thinking about that book for years because I can’t remember the title and I can’t find it _anywhere._ Might have been YA. I only remember the barest scraps of the plot.
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### Author:  [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2021, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-id-this-fantasy-book/947461/2 "2021-07-27T23:04:24Z")
It sounds like _Champions: At fire’s end_ by Charlotte Jain, but that’s a recent book. So probably not.
> **[Champions: At fire's end (Champions, #1)](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28000518-champions)**
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> Seventeen-year-old best friends, April and Kyle, are th…
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### Author:  [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2021, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-id-this-fantasy-book/947461/3 "2021-07-27T23:57:09Z")
I think that’s too recent, but thanks for the suggestion.
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### Author:  [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2021, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-id-this-fantasy-book/947461/4 "2021-07-28T06:25:36Z")
There are vague resemblances between the plot you give and that of _Lord of Light_ by Roger Zelazny. That’s old enough, but otherwise it’s not really close enough to what you describe. You can decide if it has any connection or if I’ve just wasted your time:
> **[Lord of Light](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_Light)**
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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 Best Novel, and nominated for a Nebula Award in the same category. 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 fic...
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### Author:  [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2021, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-someone-id-this-fantasy-book/947461/5 "2021-07-28T11:36:32Z")
On first glance it doesn’t sound like it, but I will read up on it.