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"James Morrow is best known for his magnum opus, the Godhead Trilogy. The first installment, Towing Jehovah, winner of the World Fantasy Award, recounts the efforts of a supertanker captain to entomb the corpse of God in an Arctic glacier. The sequel, Blameless in Abaddon, tells of a small-town judge who prosecutes the Corpus Dei before the World Court. In The Eternal Footman, God's skull goes into geosynchronous orbit above Times Square, causing a plague of despair. Morrow's long-awaited postmodern historical epic, The Last Witchfinder, will appear from William Morrow in March of 2006. His newest collection is The Cat's Pajamas and Other Stories, published last summer by Tachyon Books. Delirium Books has recently issued the Godhead Trilogy in a deluxe slipcased edition, including a chapbook of one-act plays on the theme of the Deus Absconditus. The author's other novels include This Is the Way the World Ends (1986), a Nebula finalist, and Only Begotten Daughter (1990), winner of the World Fantasy Award. His early short fiction is collected in Bible Stories for Adults, including the Nebula Award-winning fable, ""The Deluge."" His 1991 novella City of Truth also received a Nebula Award. Born in Philadelphia in 1947, Morrow spent his adolescent years making short 8mm fantasy films with his friends, including adaptations of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's ""The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"" and Edgar Allan Poe's ""The Tell-Tale Heart."" His affection for satiric and philosophical fiction comes largely from the novels he studied in his high school World Literature course. He currently lives in State College, Pennsylvania, with his wife, Kathryn, his seventeen-year-old son, Christopher, and two dogs: Pooka, an ASPCA Border collie, and Amtrak, a Doberman that Jim and Kathy found in an Orlando train station. "

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I wrote this satiric fable in hopes of adding a new and phantasmagorical wrinkle to the Darwin Wars, the ongoing conflict between religious conservatives and evolutionary thinkers over the source of our planet's biological diversity. The plot turns on Omar, a cyborg tortoise dispatched via time machine from a high-tech future to the Galápagos Islands of September 10, 1835. His audacious mission: to alter the local fauna so radically that, when Charles Darwin arrives seven days hence, he will never become inspired to father the theory of natural selection.

	The Last Witchfinder: A Novel March 1, 2006; 544 pages Starred Review. Nine years in the making, Morrow's richly detailed, cerebral tale of rationality versus superstitious bigotry is set in late-17th-century... Read more
	The Cat's Pajamas & Other Stories July 1, 2004; 262 pages Arguably sf's reigning master of satire, Morrow has already blessed the genre with two previous volumes of short fiction and the... Read more
	The Eternal Footman October 1, 2000; 368 pages "Homo sapiens is an amazing animal.... Get God and Aristotle off its back, and miracles start becoming the norm," theorizes a... Read more
	Blameless in Abaddon September 15, 1997; 416 pages This is the sequel to Towing Jehovah, a novel that garnered a World Fantasy Award and earned its author the moniker,... Read more
	Only Begotten Daughter (Harvest Book) February 28, 1996; 312 pages Murray Katz, the celibate keeper of an abandoned lighthouse near Atlantic City, has been blessed with a daughter conceived of his... Read more
	Bible Stories for Adults February 28, 1996; 256 pages Morrow's Towing Jehovah (1994), which has just won the 1995 World Fantasy Award for best novel, wickedly satirizes orthodox religion by... Read more
	This Is the Way the World Ends April 24, 1995; 336 pages Near the end of Morrow's painful novel of nuclear holocaust six survivors representing mankind are tried for their complicity in the... Read more
	Towing Jehovah (Harvest Book) April 24, 1995; 384 pages God is dead, and Anthony Van Horne doesn't feel very well himself. Van Horne--whose captaincy of a mammoth oil tanker during... Read more
	Nebula Awards 28: SFWA's Choices For The Best Science Fiction And Fantasy Of The Year (Nebula Awards Showcase) April 29, 1994; 352 pages Award-winning author and editor Morrow does a superb job chosing from among the 1992 finalists for the Science-fiction and Fantasy Writers... Read more
	City of Truth (A Harvest Book) May 7, 1993; 160 pages Morrow's nearly perfect satiric novella takes place in the dystopia of Veritas, where everyone tells the truth or faces harsh punishment--which... Read more
	Nebula Awards 27: Sffwa's Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year (Nebula Awards Showcase) April, 1993; 331 pages This weighty collection brings together stories, poems, novellas and essays of the high quality that has come to be associated with... Read more
	Nebula Awards 27: Sfwa's Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year (Nebula Awards Showcase) April, 1993; 331 pages
	Swatting at the Cosmos May, 1990
	The Continent of Lies May, 1984
	The Wine of Violence November 1, 1982

Blameless in Abaddon by James Morrow 4.5 out of 5 stars (24)  $19.80

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Towing Jehovah (Harvest Book) by James Morrow 4.1 out of 5 stars (52)  $11.20

The Last Witchfinder: A Novel (P.S.) by James Morrow 4.5 out of 5 stars (29)  $12.44

Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Vintage) by Neil Shubin 4.6 out of 5 stars (125)  $10.04

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews   4 of 4 people found the following review helpful: 5.0 out of 5 stars MORROW HAS A STYLE OF HIS OWN! FASCINATING CONCEPT!, April 10, 2006 By  Betty L. Dravis "BettyDravis@gmail.com, autho... (Silicon Valley, CA) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)       I could tell by the title this would be a satire, and what a satire it is! James Morrow at his best! He must have written it with his tongue planted firmly between his teeth ... and I read it with a big grin on my face. He certainly knows how to turn a phrase and how to make his readers think. However, I didn't have to think too hard because I'm grounded in the Bible, so I read this story for pure entertainment ... and that's what this talented author delivered. Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)   3 of 3 people found the following review helpful: 5.0 out of 5 stars A work of distinction, July 23, 2006 By  Eugen Bacon (Melbourne, Australia) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)    Ah, heck. I just had to read this tale of a cyborg Galápagos; a programmed, impulsive yet morally compassed tortoise on an extinction mission. A lightly humorous and remarkably intellectual heavy weight, The Second Coming of Charles Darwin is both crisp and entertaining. James Morrow writes with almost cynic distinction to produce a satirical epiphany that may dictate a second reading in order to grasp it - unless examined lightly to match the fashion of its writing. Eugen M. Bacon Amazon Shorts Author, The Hybrid/ The Firemaker: A Hybrid Story Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)   8 of 12 people found the following review helpful: 5.0 out of 5 stars Always the points counterpoint, August 22, 2005 By  Brian Rose (West Bend, WI) - See all my reviews Jim Morrow has returned after a few years without a book on the shelves to bring us his prose in short form; an area in which his ideas excel and don't feel rushed or squashed. In "The Second Coming of Charles Darwin" we meet a automatonic galapogos tortoise who is sent back in time with a vengeant man wanting to right the moral wrings of the future by preventing what he feels is the root of all moral wrongs, the theory of evolution. A fantastic short story sewn together with Jim's always welcome satire. He continually birngs his readers a great story, even if you agree with his pathos or not, Jim is one of the most underrated writers of our day. Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this) Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review › See all 5 customer reviews...		Ad feedback   Most Recent Customer Reviews 5.0 out of 5 stars Unusual and Awesome "The Second coming of Charles Darwin" tells the story of a cyborg tortoise and his companion, a religious zealot, on their quest to prevent the development of Darwin's theory of... Read more Published on May 1, 2006 by Jessica J. Sirkin 5.0 out of 5 stars Definitely not Fictionus Genericus James Morrow is one of those authors that comes along only a couple of times in a lifetime who can leave you staring at the wall, lost in thought, but grinning because you can... Read more Published on October 21, 2005 by David Niall Wilson - Author of... Search Customer Reviews Only search this product's reviews › See all 5 customer reviews...