- Hardcover: 572 pages
- Publisher: iUniverse.com (19 Aug 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0595666175
- ISBN-13: 978-0595666171
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 3.7 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,511,844 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A Lost Wife
A Found Messiah
A World on the Brink of Damnation
The Devil's minion has offered Crilen a deal: Return to a dead planet's past, save it from self-destruction, and be reunited with the loving wife who died in his arms over a decade ago. Not an impossible task for the fiery cosmic warrior who has built his life around rescuing planets from pagan religions, false gods and atheist monarchs.
However, upon his arrival in the past, Crilen finds an incredibly complex world. A world tangled in a web of socio-political strife which threatens to sever the souls of its inhabitants from their faith in God and herd them into the burning pit of eternal suffering. Crilen's affections also become fixated upon Panla Jen, a devoutly religious leader, who seeks to reform her planet's faith by destroying the secular institution which has imprisoned the Word of God with ungodly man-made laws, rituals and ideals. An immoral government which enables the vices of the majority, an amoral news and entertainment media lusting for optimum profits and a violent underground atheist insurrection conspire to shepherd the masses into a spiritual death-spiral fueled by their own lusts for freedom as an end rather than a means.
What must Crilen sacrifice to rescue this world and elude the Devil's bidding?
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
The Planet of Mortal Worship
6 Sep 2004
Format:Hardcover
The Planet of Mortal Worship is an engrossing, thought-provoking story--well told, engaging and suspenseful. I think, if given a chance, it will be of interest to the general reader, not just those interested in sci fi or speculative fiction.
The two heroes, Priestess Panla Jen and space and time traveler Crilen, will particularly attract the reader's attention and emotions. Despite the fact they are both far-removed, in many ways, from a typical reader here on Earth in 2004, I think their admirable qualities, human flaws and complex relationship will ring true for many, and may be personally familiar.
Panla is well served by her coterie of attendants. They help the reader believe and understand how she lived the complicated life she led as long as she did. Her less than faithful follower Feebie's misgivings and misguided actions against Panla echo most people's occasional fear that they have chosen hollow heroes and role models. That Panla understands and forgives, even thanks her, reinforces our hope that our ideals are, indeed, as ideal as a mortal can be.
Panla's conflict between her own needs, her God's needs and the needs of those she is to "deliver" to are also well defined and should be instructive and deserving of empathy from many. I think she's a heroine who will be widely and enthusiastically embraced.
Crilen, the lone alien hero, personifies, despite his many unique qualities, a classic example of man seeking the right path. He's easily recognizable and his constant desire to understand the big picture and choose the right path is inspiring. He is greatly softened and humanized by his love for his wife, and, by extension at first and then his true love for Panla. He remains a romantic character in a hard, cold universe.
The Planet of Mortal Worship is a truly satisfying read on many levels.
The two heroes, Priestess Panla Jen and space and time traveler Crilen, will particularly attract the reader's attention and emotions. Despite the fact they are both far-removed, in many ways, from a typical reader here on Earth in 2004, I think their admirable qualities, human flaws and complex relationship will ring true for many, and may be personally familiar.
Panla is well served by her coterie of attendants. They help the reader believe and understand how she lived the complicated life she led as long as she did. Her less than faithful follower Feebie's misgivings and misguided actions against Panla echo most people's occasional fear that they have chosen hollow heroes and role models. That Panla understands and forgives, even thanks her, reinforces our hope that our ideals are, indeed, as ideal as a mortal can be.
Panla's conflict between her own needs, her God's needs and the needs of those she is to "deliver" to are also well defined and should be instructive and deserving of empathy from many. I think she's a heroine who will be widely and enthusiastically embraced.
Crilen, the lone alien hero, personifies, despite his many unique qualities, a classic example of man seeking the right path. He's easily recognizable and his constant desire to understand the big picture and choose the right path is inspiring. He is greatly softened and humanized by his love for his wife, and, by extension at first and then his true love for Panla. He remains a romantic character in a hard, cold universe.
The Planet of Mortal Worship is a truly satisfying read on many levels.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Highly Recommended
29 Aug 2005
Format:Paperback
I have wrestled long and hard with how best to convey all that should be conveyed about Templeman's book.
If you're on the fence about it, if the admittedly steep cover price is putting you off, then plunge ahead and go for it. You won't regret it. Every person I have turned onto it has been glad they found out about it.
The writing itself is top notch, lovely without any hint of pretension. It's visceral too; reading the first fifty pages or so (and the tragedy contained therein) will reveal that.
But the thing that makes the book so worthwhile is that Templeman has an unabashed agenda in his work. Questions of morality and the consequences of decadence abound. Templeman has his own viewpoint which he takes pains to put forward. But even if you don't agree with what he is saying you will still find yourself pondering his book and the relevance it has to our own confused world long after you've finshed it. That's the hallmark of the best writing: the question it asks stay with you long after the story has been told. That is precisely the case with _Planet of Mortal Worship_.
If you're on the fence about it, if the admittedly steep cover price is putting you off, then plunge ahead and go for it. You won't regret it. Every person I have turned onto it has been glad they found out about it.
The writing itself is top notch, lovely without any hint of pretension. It's visceral too; reading the first fifty pages or so (and the tragedy contained therein) will reveal that.
But the thing that makes the book so worthwhile is that Templeman has an unabashed agenda in his work. Questions of morality and the consequences of decadence abound. Templeman has his own viewpoint which he takes pains to put forward. But even if you don't agree with what he is saying you will still find yourself pondering his book and the relevance it has to our own confused world long after you've finshed it. That's the hallmark of the best writing: the question it asks stay with you long after the story has been told. That is precisely the case with _Planet of Mortal Worship_.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Amazingly well written and gripping novel
16 Nov 2004
Format:Hardcover
Mr. Templeman delivers once again with an intelligent, sci fi read sure to keep the reader engrossed. The characters truly come to life and the drama of this bizarre yet oddly familiar world kept me enthralled from beginning to end. I highly recommend this book!!!
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