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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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