Series: Book 4 in the SF-Masterworks series
Rating: Not rated
Tags: EN-Masterworks, Lang:en
Summary
To commemorate the 30th anniversary of Moorcock's Nebula
Award-winning novel, Mojo is reissuing the book in a special
illustrated edition that incorporates the author's
corrections. Moorcock also provides a new afterword. All that
in a hardcover for $12.95 makes this a bargain.
Behold The Man won the 1967 Nebula Award. 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. Karl Glogauer travels back in time
two thousand years, meets John the Baptist, and then seeks
Jesus Christ himself. 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. And
absolutely unforgettable. 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. It's an essential element of
any library of the fantastic- be grateful Mojo Press cared
enough to make it available again. --
from William D. Gagliani's "Literature Fantastique"
column from the December 1996 issue of Booklovers
From Library Journal
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.Review