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Mike and Gaby's Space Gospel (Paperback)

by Ken Russell (Author)
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  • Paperback: 207 pages
  • Publisher: Time Warner Paperbacks; New edition edition (1 Jun 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0751530158
  • ISBN-13: 978-0751530155
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12 x 1.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,580,266 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Ken Russell's first attempt at a science fiction novel is a genially sacrilegious, and hardly original, rehearsal of the career of Christ as an experiment by robot intelligence from outer space. Mike and Gaby create the entire history of humanity in a desperate attempt by their machine civilisation to find the answer to an insidious plague of rust, and Jesus Christ is the culmination of their plan. Thus, almost all of the miracles are last minute improvisations, with ramshackle technology that often crashes, by them or their horned opponent from some rival civilisation. And yet, somehow, their instrument has a mind of His own--this is not quite as irreverent a book as it at first sight seems, and this Jesus has a dignity entirely unaffected by the mechanical clowns that think they are pulling His strings. Much of the interaction of the two robots is more touching than one might expect-- Russell is a bit of an old softy at heart in spite of his attempts at cynicism. And even the predictable jokes in dubious taste--the feeding of five thousand involves smoked salmon and bagels, and there are complaints about the absence of cream cheese--have the charm of old friends. --Roz Kaveney --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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This is everything you'd expect from a man who once placed the unfortunate Roger Daltrey in a crinoline atop a 20-foot prosthetic penis. Women in Love director Russell provides a quick zip through the Bible - from Eden to Calvary - as it might be if a race of super-robots had created the universe and the resulting roller-coaster ride through history had been scripted by US high-school kids on a rainy day at summer camp. Sex, sleaze, sci-fi, sacrilege - it's all here, accompanied by the kind of jokes which are only funny if you don't understand the Biblical references in Monty Python's Life of Brian. Russell has always been a maverick talent, but on the basis of this the bats have taken up permanent residence in his belfry. (Kirkus UK)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Mike and Gaby's Space Travesty, 28 Jun 1999
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Never before did I think that a book could deliver pain, however this book quickly changed my mind. I started reading this, thiking it would be offencive to Christians, but it is an affront to intelligent life itself. This book is terrible in every conceivable way. From the dreadful grammer to the unpalatable storyline, Mike and Gaby's story is an ordeal from the beginning to however far you get in the story (which will not be far). I would rather be crucified than suffer the waking nightmare of this book. In summary Mike and Gaby is to books, what Independence Day is to intelligent cinema.
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5.0 out of 5 stars SYNOPSIS [From The Dust Jacket Flap], 3 Feb 2009
By R. A. Hylton "liverpoolbooqshop" (Liverpool, England) - See all my reviews
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"A long time ago, in a galaxy not a million miles away, two friendly robots called Mike and Gaby became involved with an incredible experiment. It was called mankind. And its purpose: to find an antidote that would save the robot race from a design fault doomed to bring about its destruction.

Unfortunately, experiments don't always go to plan!

Firstly, two prototypes, named Adam and Eve after a couple of intergalatic pot plants, are consigned to the surface of a planet called Earth. They seem innocent enough at first, but dark forces of corruption soon lead to a terrible fall.

After some discussion, Mike and Gaby decide that only a miracle can save mankind, so a miracle is what Mike and Gaby decide to give them. Or, even better, lots of miracles. As their spaceship twinkles mischievously in the night sky over Bethlehem, a child is born in a stable. His destiny: to get mankind back on track. And so begins one of the most remarkable stories of all time - a story which will become known throughout the universe as Mike and Gaby's Space Gospel."

"'Mike And Gaby's Space Gospel' is the wickedly funny, outrageously inventive and scandalously compelling debut novel from Ken Russell, one of Britain's best-known and most highly acclaimed film-makers."
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5.0 out of 5 stars It's a Ken Russell Picture for the Mind!, 26 Jun 1999
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Ken Russell's first (and hopefully not his last) novel is a deightful, delirious, and downright brilliant offering. For anyone who loves Russell's films, it is an essential--it is nothing less than a Ken Russell film (and we haven't had one in far too long) for the mind. The Russell savvy reader will have no problem projecting this wonderful brain film in his mind's eye. In some ways, it's almost the ultimate KR film, because it's so thoroughly unhampered by concerns of budget, censorship, or casting. Only Ken Russell would think to "cast" Mae West as Mary Magdalene, but he does and it works brilliantly, as does the rest of his dream cast. A genuinely wonderful book--funny, clever, thought-provoking, and, ultimately, reverent in its own way.
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