[ebusinesstutor]

I enjoy when authors put interesting plot twists involving Gods in their stories.

A couple of examples.

Harry Turtledove's Fox Series
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In this series the hero tries to avoid the involvement of gods in local affairs, but always seems to either invoke them accidentally, or needs to involve them to face problems with powerful foreign gods who are laying waste to the land.

Turtledove does this with great humor and the hero manages scrapes through with quick, clever thinking as apposed to any great power of his own.

Lois McMaster Bujold's Chalion Series
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Some intriguing uses of gods here.

When you die, one of the gods gives a sign through animals as to which of them welcomes your spirit and takes it up.

I especially like the Bastard god who shows a lot of humor and enjoys a healthy appetite for sex, food, and other pleasures and encourages it in his followers.

Gods lend a hand at time but there are consequences.

What other stories have you enjoyed that have intriguing ways of involving Gods.

[TheEvilKing]

I like The Age of Ra by James Lovegrove. It's set in an alternative modern-day where the gods of Egypt have defeated all other pantheons and now rule the world. One of 2009's most underrated books in my opinion.

[algernoninc]

Tempus, a character from Thieves World - the shared world series edited by Lynn Asprin is a demigod interacting with other deities.

Robert E Howard has an excellent Conan story in this vein: The Frost Giant's Daughter

Steven Erikson's Malazan is overflowing with gods and ascendants crawling all over the place and providing timely divine intervention to tie up loose plot lines.

I'm sure there's more...

[teahupoo]

Raymond E. Feist. I forget which book he brings in gods.

Night Angel Trilogy. Not exactly sure if that is a god he talks too.

Patrick Rothfuss' The Name of the Wind has some God stuff.

[BrightStar]

Servant of the Underworld (book 1 of the Obsidian and Blood Trilogy) by Aliette de Bodard had gods in it. I recall it being very good.

Empress (book one of the Godspeaker trilogy) by Karen Miller has a god in it and a very brutal religious system. Readers seem to have a love/hate relationship with that book though. I loved it, but I know many do not.

Jacqueline Carey's Sundering duology - Banewreaker and Godslayer - also features gods (if I'm remembering correctly) and is a very enjoyable read.

[SusF]

I love books that use Mythology. Norse Code by Greg Van Eekhout was really very good. It appears to be a stand alone novel.

Also the series beginning with WebMage by Kelly McCullough is very good, also mixing Greek mythology and cyberpunk. Love it! You gotta love a hero that makes friends with Cerberus.

[Mithfânion]

The Book of Joby
God's Demon
Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
The God Engines

Just a few that come to mind from recent times. There are many, many more.

[JT Billow]

While on this subject:

Here is the Wiki list of fantasy genres-
* Epic Fantasy / High fantasy
* Gawęda
* Mythic
* Traditional fantasy
* Comic fantasy
* Dark fantasy
* Fantasy of manners
* Low fantasy
* Magic realism
* Quest
* Superhero fantasy
* Sword and sorcery
* Surrealist novel
Would this line of books fall under the Mythic subgenre, or elsewhere?

[KatG]

Um, I don't know who put those together for the Wiki, but that's a bit confusing. What the hey is Gaweda? Stories with gods in it is not a sub-genre, but you can call stories that use gods mythic certainly. There are thousands of gods novels. Just went to see The Lightening Thief in fact. Did you want non-Christian or both, and what about made up ones?

Neil Gaiman likes gods -- Sandman comics, American Gods, Anansi Boys, and Good Omens with Terry Pratchett.

R.A. MacAvoy's Damiano series is about angels. James Blaylock has done several such as The Last Coin and All the Bells on Earth. Liz Williams' excellent Inspector Chen series, Marie Phillips' Gods Behaving Badly, James Morrow's Towing Jehovah, Christopher Moore's Lamb, etc.

[JT Billow]

Um, I don't know who put those together for the Wiki, but that's a bit confusing. What the hey is Gaweda? Stories with gods in it is not a sub-genre, but you can call stories that use gods mythic certainly. There are thousands of gods novels. Just went to see The Lightening Thief in fact. Did you want non-Christian or both, and what about made up ones?

Neil Gaiman likes gods -- Sandman comics, American Gods, Anansi Boys, and Good Omens with Terry Pratchett.

R.A. MacAvoy's Damiano series is about angels. James Blaylock has done several such as The Last Coin and All the Bells on Earth. Liz Williams' excellent Inspector Chen series, Marie Phillips' Gods Behaving Badly, James Morrow's Towing Jehovah, Christopher Moore's Lamb, etc.

Quite confusing to me as well. The title of the pages is listed under subgenre, but the list is described as themes.

According to Wiki:
Gawęda is a genre of Polish folk literature.