Behold the Man
by Michael Moorcock · first published 1968
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Karl Glogauer is a disaffected modern professional casting about for meaning in a series of half-hearted relationships, a dead-end job, and a personal struggle. His questions of faith surrounding his father's run-of-the-mill Christianity and his mother's suppressed Judaism lead him to a bizarre obsession with the idea of the messiah. After the collapse of his latest affair and his introduction to a reclusive physics professor, Karl is given the opportunity to confront his obsession and take a journey that no man has taken before, and from which he knows he cannot return. Upon arriving in Pa
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Joe Haldeman, The Forever War. Michael Moorcock, An Alien Heat & Behold the Man.
on “What are your favourite sci-fi books?” ↗…Dream of Electric Sheep?" "Stranger in a Strange Land" "The City and the Stars" "Childhood's End" "Anathem" "Eifelheim" "A Case of Conscience" "VALIS" trilogy "The Book of Strange New Things" "Behold The Man" "The God Engines" "Book of the New Sun" "The Parable of the Sower" "The Dosadi Experiment" "Grass" "Project Pope" "Calculating God" "Factoring Humanity" "Jesus on Mars" "Surface Detail
on “Ask HN: Books that gave you different perspective on religion” ↗…the past, you had "always" travelled back to the past, and anything you did there was already part of history before you started on your journey (aargh, time-travel tenses are hard). Michael Moorcock's Behold the Man[0] would be a good fictional example. This, on the other hand, suggests you can change the fine detail of history (e.g. the identity of patient zero) but not its broad strokes (the occurrence of a global…
on “Paradox-free time travel is theoretically possible” ↗…author of this article plainly hasn't heard of Michael Moorcock, who's been writing about the multiverse since the late 1960s with stories like The Dreaming City, The Eternal Champion, The Black Corridor, Behold The Man, etc. https://www.michaelmoorcock.net/
on “All at Once, the Multiverse Is Everywhere” ↗