In a way, it suggests the power of the Christian message: the pure message survives even through a human being’s selfishness and fallibility. Still, I think it’s a very interesting way of looking at the story, even if I don’t like the way it portrays Christianity. Worse, the figure who becomes Jesus is not altruistic, but self-absorbed and narcissistic. Certain people might find it offensive because it undermines the sanctity of Jesus Christ, and tangles that story up in a lot of sexual and mental health hangups.

'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title.Moorcock’s Behold the Man is entirely different to his Elric books, or Gloriana, or anything else of his I’ve come across so far. Gagliani's 'Literature Fantastique' column from the December 1996 issue of Booklovers

It's an essential element of any library of the fantastic- be grateful Mojo Press cared enough to make it available again. I'm ecstatic to have this beautiful corrected 30th Anniversary edition, with foreword by Jonathan Carroll and an afterword by the author, as well as lush illustrations by John Picacio. To quote the jacket copy, 'What he discovers shocks him to the core.' This is a devastating story- science fiction at its most abstract and symbolic. Karl Glogauer travels back in time two thousand years, meets John the Baptist, and then seeks Jesus Christ himself. Moorcock is an acknowledged master of fantasy with social and psychological bite, and this extremely controversial novella may well represent the best the fantasy field has to offer in terms of pure literary firepower. Review:īehold The Man won the 1967 Nebula Award. Although born in London, he now splits his time between homes in Texas and Paris. He has been compared to, among others, Balzac, Dumas, Dickens, James Joyce, Ian Fleming, J.R.R. Michael Moorcock's literary creations include Hawkmoon, Corum, Von Bek, Jerry Cornelius and, of course, his most famous character, Elric.

His tenure as editor of New Worlds magazine in the sixties and seventies is seen as the high watermark of SF editorship in the UK, and was crucial in the development of the SF New Wave. Michael Moorcock is also a musician who has performed since the seventies with his own band, the Deep Fix and, as a member of the prog rock band, Hawkwind, won a gold disc. In 1999, he was given the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award in 2001, he was inducted into the SF Hall of Fame and in 2007, he was named a SFWA Grandmaster. The author of many literary novels and stories in practically every genre, his novels have won and been shortlisted for numerous awards including the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Whitbread and Guardian Fiction Prize. Michael Moorcock (1939-) Michael Moorcock is one of the most important figures in British SF and Fantasy literature.

Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock