The sleek cover with the blue gray skies, hovering asteroids, space ships and sporadic laser beams is evocative of the much loved works of science-fiction one grew up on. However, when Lord Ganesha makes an opening into the narrative and goes on to play a stellar role, Ashok K. Banker's Gods of War reveals itself to be a unusual ball game altogether from the ordinary science fiction. Cutting through figurative, metaphysical, spiritual, existential and political planes in his storytelling, the novel lingers tantalizingly on the undying question of whether at the end of all physics is god and god is physics. Burdened with contrasts in the tonal quality of writing, the book could be distantly disconcerting.

A farmer had some puppies he needed to sell. He painted a sign advertising the pups and set about nailing it to a post on the edge of his yard. As he was driving the last nail into the post, he felt a tug on his overalls. He looked down into the Eyes of a little boy.
Mister," he said, "I want to buy one of your puppies."
"Well," said the farmer, as he rubbed the sweat off the back of his neck, "these puppies come from fine parents and cost a good deal of money."
The boy dropped his head for a moment. Then reaching deep into his pocket, he pulled out a handful of change and held it up to the farmer. "I've got thirty-nine cents. Is that enough to take a look?"
"Sure," said the farmer.
And with that he let out a whistle, "Here, Dolly!" he called.
Out from the doghouse and down the ramp ran Dolly followed by four little balls of fur. The little boy pressed his face against the chain link fence. His eyes danced with delight.
As the dogs made their way to the fence, the little boy noticed something else stirring inside the doghouse. Slowly another little ball appeared; this One noticeably smaller. Down the ramp it slid. Then in a somewhat awkward manner the little pup began hobbling toward the others, doing its best to catch up....
"I want that one," the little boy said, pointing to the runt.
The farmer knelt down at the boy's side and said, "Son, you don't want that puppy. He will never be able to run and play with you like these other dogs would."
With that the little boy stepped back from the fence, reached down, and began rolling up one leg of his trousers. In doing so he revealed a steel brace running down both sides of his leg attaching itself to a specially made shoe. Looking back up at the farmer, he said, "You see sir, I don't run too well myself, and he will need Someone who understands."
The world is full of people who need someone who understands.

Julius Caesar is one of the great tragedy themed plays by William Shakespeare. Julius Caesar is a well determined political leader in Rome. His aim is to become dictator. A fortune-teller tells Caesar to be careful of the ides of March. He warns him that he will die on this day. The foresight of the fortune-teller comes true and Caesar is assassinated due to the scheming of Marcus Brutus and Cassius. At the end Brutus and Cassius meet up their inevitable defeat. The defeat plunges the country into civil war.