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by Michael Moorcock (Author)
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  • Paperback: 128 pages
  • Publisher: Gollancz; New edition edition (11 Nov 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1857988485
  • ISBN-13: 978-1857988482
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 1.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 25,356 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A slim novel of theology and time travel, Behold the Man was expanded from the 1966 novella version which won a Nebula Award. Non-hero Karl Glogauer has a traumatic history of bullying and abuse as a Jewish refugee child in 1950s Britain. When grown, he rides a strange time machine to the Roman-ruled Judaea of AD 28 and finds himself hailed as a magus by John the Baptist and the Essene sect ...
How should he use the power? Did he really have a mission? Could he alter history and be responsible for aiding the Jews to throw out the Romans?

In his own time Glogauer is a failed lover, a questing but forever unsatisfied mystic, a repeated faker of suicide attempts. In first-century Judaea these shortcomings are echoed in terrible ironies, and his destiny emerges as inevitable from the moment he visits a certain carpenter's workshop to find the misshapen idiot boy called Jesus.

Karl Glogauer had discovered the reality he had been seeking. That was not to say he did not still have doubts.

Perhaps it might have been possible to alter history, but the grim old drama plays out as it was foreordained--or at least, close enough for historians to hammer into the prophesied shape. "The chroniclers would rearrange it". Whether history has been remade as tragedy or farce is for readers to decide. This is Moorcock's sharpest, most successful novel of pure SF; it's the 22nd selection in Millennium's very strong SF Masterworks library. --David Langford

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Meet Karl Glogauer, time traveller and unlikely Messiah. When he finds himself in Palestine in the year 29AD he is shocked to meet the man known as Jesus Christ -- a drooling idiot, hiding in the shadows of the carpenter's shop in Nazareth. But if he is not capable of fulfilling his historical role, then who will take his place?

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5.0 out of 5 stars Short, sharp and shocking, 11 Feb 2002
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In his interviw about this book Moorcock says he kept the sci-fi to a minimum because he didn't want readers to get bogged down in extraneous detail. He was not interested in 'rationales' of how the time machine worked but what the time machine might represent symbolically (a womb, a
rebirth) and this is obvious from his description of the machine. If this didn't have its sci-fi element my guess it would be a famous literary classic because it's a whole lot more subtle and interesting than Last Temptation of Christ or that Dennis Potter play about Christ, which I think had the same title. It is the book's continuing power, which hit me as a young man. It isn't intended to shake your faith in religion. It's intended to make you question your faith in everything! Nice and short, too.
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars God this is good, 4 Dec 2002
By Mr. R. J. Hole "rick___" (England) - See all my reviews
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This has, no doubt, been widely read by SF lovers. First published in 1969, it won the Nebula award for best novella. It is quite a quick read - even the number of pages exaggerate its length.

I made the mistake of reading the blurb on the back cover before I bought the book. Unfortunately, this told me the plot up to page 145, so there were no surprises for me!

So what's it about without giving away everything? Karl Glogauer has the opportunity to travel in time using a time machine invented by a crank scientist. He decides to go to Palestine in 29 AD so that he can watch the crucifixion. The story builds up the events leading to this decision at the same time as following Glogauer's progress in the past.

I enjoyed this story... as a non-religous person I am all in favour of this type of alternative look at religous history.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Praise the Lord!, 12 Jul 2005
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One of Moorcocks best, a stunning idea (time traveller becomes involved in the reality of Jesus crucifixion) is matched by an exquisite execution, as the structure of this novel brilliantly pieces together the compelling characterisation of Karl Glogaur. Doubtlessly highly blasphemous for any committed Christians, this is thought-provoking and moving stuff for everyone else.
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5.0 out of 5 stars excellent rollercoaster ride of a read
I've read this novella a couple of times. it is the only Moorcock novel i ever managed to finish. I could never get into any of his other stories at all. Read more
Published 19 days ago by tell it like it is

4.0 out of 5 stars Complex, interesting and disturbing
"Behold the Man" is a very interesting book that leaves a lot of thinking on behalf of the reader.

(Slight Spoilers follow)

The story follows Karl... Read more
Published 1 month ago by N. Durand

4.0 out of 5 stars Sharp piece of inner space science fiction
This qualifies as science fiction because of the time travel element but this isnt the main focus of the writing at all. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Lark

5.0 out of 5 stars History rewritten
This is one of the superior books of the SF masterworks series.
Basically it is an alternative history of Jesus' last months and the crucifixion, involving - you guessed it... Read more
Published 14 months ago by Johnny London

5.0 out of 5 stars Bukowski in a time machine...
This is less a sci-fi book, more a journey of self discovery. The lead charcter is full of flaws and sins, but the writing style is great and i can not help but relate to him... Read more
Published 20 months ago by Mr. A. Jones

4.0 out of 5 stars First Moorcock book ive read
Short book with substance. Entertaining, but not perfect, has some excellent ideas. Confusing at times but the idea of time travel is always cool. Read more
Published 24 months ago by Mr. C. M. Owen

1.0 out of 5 stars Disturbing lecture
From the first line I got an unfavourable impression from the author. His style was bare, direct and sharp, almost hurting. Read more
Published on 30 Nov 2005 by tsanchezt

2.0 out of 5 stars Too much Karl, not enough Jesus.
This book was a disappointment for me after the brilliance of all the other books in this series.

Too much of the text is concerned with Karl's own life without really relating... Read more

Published on 27 April 2003 by Butler

5.0 out of 5 stars Smart and subversive
Great stuff from Moorcock who is not capable of writing anything less than great fiction. Short enough to read in one sitting and well worth the effort. Read more
Published on 15 Aug 2002 by jonny1050

3.0 out of 5 stars Deus ex machina
Behold The Man was an interesting read for the first 2/3 of the novel but it tailed off a bit at the end. Read more
Published on 13 Nov 2001

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