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Michael Moorcock's unsettling, thought-provoking time-travel novella Behold the Man (1978), about a twentieth-century man who becomes Christ, inevitably and deservedly anchors this outstanding anthology of stories about Christ and Christ figures. With contributions from Dostoyevsky (the Grand Inquisitor story from The Brothers Karamazov), Babel, Borges, and Wilde ("The Selfish Giant," of course), however, Moorcock's tour de force can't automatically claim the highest literary reputation here. Many of the entries by Moorcock's fellow genre hands, such as Karen Joy Fowler's "Shimabara" (strictly speaking, a historical, nearly nonfictional tale), George Zebrowski's brainy "The Coming of Christ the Joker," Gene Wolfe's Sherlockian "The Detective of Dreams," and Mike Resnick's anthropological "The Pale, Thin God," match or exceed his in one way or another. The most parabolic selections—the Resnick, playwright Romulus Linney's "Early Marvels," even Walter Wangerin Jr.'s straightforward "Ragman"—are appropriately some of the most colorful and ponderable in an altogether resonant, memorable offering. Most authors briefly remark on their handiworks, editor Bishop (himself a contributor) comments when authors don't, and a four-page list of more Christ fiction, novels as well as short stories, is appended. Olson, Ray
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Michael Moorcock's unsettling, thought-provoking time-travel novella Behold the Man (1978), about a twentieth-century man who becomes Christ, inevitably and deservedly anchors this outstanding anthology of stories about Christ and Christ figures. With contributions from Dostoyevsky (the Grand Inquisitor story from The Brothers Karamazov), Babel, Borges, and Wilde ("The Selfish Giant," of course), however, Moorcock's tour de force can't automatically claim the highest literary reputation here. Many of the entries by Moorcock's fellow genre hands, such as Karen Joy Fowler's "Shimabara" (strictly speaking, a historical, nearly nonfictional tale), George Zebrowski's brainy "The Coming of Christ the Joker," Gene Wolfe's Sherlockian "The Detective of Dreams," and Mike Resnick's anthropological "The Pale, Thin God," match or exceed his in one way or another. The most parabolic selections—the Resnick, playwright Romulus Linney's "Early Marvels," even Walter Wangerin Jr.'s straightforward "Ragman"—are appropriately some of the most colorful and ponderable in an altogether resonant, memorable offering. Most authors briefly remark on their handiworks, editor Bishop (himself a contributor) comments when authors don't, and a four-page list of more Christ fiction, novels as well as short stories, is appended. Olson, Ray
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A collection of stories about the Biblical Jesus and others by the writers, Dostoyevsky, Bradbury, and Hemingway.
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Gore Vidal, Manger Scene, Saint Peter, Larry King, Author's Commentary, Captain Hart, Hara Castle, John the Baptist, Karl Glogauer, Inquisitor General, Lord Matsudaira, Jesus Christ, Saint James, Saint John, Saint Stephen, Martin Donner, New Egypt, Saint Toribio, Son of God, Father Zosima, Jack Dann, True Cross, White Christ, Buenos Aires, Cross of Centuries New!
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Gore Vidal, Manger Scene, Saint Peter, Larry King, Author's Commentary, Captain Hart, Hara Castle, John the Baptist, Karl Glogauer, Inquisitor General, Lord Matsudaira, Jesus Christ, Saint James, Saint John, Saint Stephen, Martin Donner, New Egypt, Saint Toribio, Son of God, Father Zosima, Jack Dann, True Cross, White Christ, Buenos Aires, Cross of Centuries New!
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