5/24/2023 0 Comments Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock![]() ![]() It’s a promising start that he almost immediately encounters John the Baptist that part of Jesus’ story checks out. Pried from the wreckage by kindly Essenes, Karl manages to establish that he is in the Holy Land, and he has arrived just in time to look for Jesus, although only just - the year is, as far as he can tell, about 28 AD. The time machine might well allow him to uncover the historical reality behind the myth of Jesus. ![]() He has torpedoed his most recent relationship and has little to keep him in the 20 thcentury. The wealthy and brilliant Sir James had constructed a time machine. His yearning for impossibilities doomed all of his relationships, led him across the globe, and ultimately to Sir James Headington. ![]() ![]() Although it is not immediately clear if he has reached the correct time and place, he will ultimately survive beyond his wildest dreams.įollowing a miserable childhood in post-War England, rich in bullying and the occasional molestation, Karl grew up with tremendous curiosity and a need for meaning he’s also bedeviled by neuroticism, self-sabotage, and suicidal melancholia. His intention had been to search for the historical Jesus. The machine is wrecked on arrival, but Karl survives. Karl Glogauer’s time machine arrives in a desolate region. At novel length, it did not - but then most novels don’t. In novella form 1, this black humor time-travel tale won a Nebula. 1969’s Behold the Man is an expanded version of Michael Moorcock’s 1966 novella of the same title. ![]()
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