The novel was published in 2001, and it won the two highest awards in fantasy literature the following year: the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award, which you can understand as the Oscars and the best picture in Cannes.
A brief summary of the story of the first season is that the god Odin summoned the old gods to fight against the new gods represented by Mr. World and the god of media. Old gods include Father Odin, God of Destruction Rocky, Thor, Thor, Spider God Annecy, Goblin, House God
and Bancy Banshee, as well as the God of Wealth Guru, Granny Wind and Fallen Angel, etc.
In the spiritual consciousness of the immigrants, cross the ocean with the immigrants and come to the new world. But soon after, the immigrants began to abandon the belief in the old gods, thinking that the old gods were just myths and legends, thinking that the old gods did not exist in this new world. The true believers of the old gods have died or stopped believing in the old gods. The old gods were abandoned. The old gods can only find extremely rare sacrifices and believers. The old gods have almost no influence in the new world. So the old gods started robbing, prostituting, drinking, taking drugs, stealing, and defrauding. In the old world, the old gods were the high gods. But in this new world, the old gods can only linger and struggle on the fringes of society.
The old gods saw with their own eyes that a new generation of gods has grown up in America. People believe in new gods, they are the gods of credit cards, the gods of highways, the gods of the Internet, the gods of telephones, the gods of radios, the gods of hospitals, the gods of television, the gods of plastics, the gods of BP machines, and the gods of neon lights. .
In order to win back the believers, in order to feed and survive, the old gods will fight against the new gods.
"Gods are great, but human beings are even greater. Because gods were born in their hearts, they will return to their hearts." Those who believed in the new gods were saved, while those who were attached to the old gods fell to the ground.
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