Rin Chupeco
has written obscure manuals for complicated computer programs, talked
people out of their money at event shows, and done many other terrible
things. She now writes about ghosts and fantastic worlds but is still
sometimes mistaken for a revenant. She is the author of The Girl from the Well, its sequel, The Suffering, and the Bone Witch trilogy.Her new novel is The Ever Cruel Kingdom.
At Tor.com, Chupeco tagged five sci-fi & fantasy books about flawed gods, including:
Fengshen Yanyi / Investiture of the GodsRead about the other entries on the list.
Allegedly written by Xu Zhonglin, the Fengshen Yanyi is one of the most popular works in Chinese literature, and is a fictionalized retelling of King Zhòuand the decline of the Shang dynasty. For a sprawling epic with roughly a hundred chapters that detail the bloody wars preceding the Zhōu dynasty, the catalyst to the conflict was a rather small offense—King Zhòu had disrespected the goddess, Nuwa, by writing lustful poems about her on the walls of her temple. Naturally, the only way to regain her honor was to send fox spirits posing as courtesans to enchant him and bring about an end to his reign—violently. A reasonable progression of events I suppose, when you’re the goddess responsible for creating the whole of humanity.
--Marshal Zeringue
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