Although born in London, he now splits his time between homes in Texas and Paris. MICHAEL MOORCOCK BE HOLD THE MAN BEHOLD THE MAN Michael Moorcock Edited by John Davey The Time Machine as Wells would never have creamed. He has been compared to, among others, Balzac, Dumas, Dickens, James Joyce, Ian Fleming, J.R.R. Michael Moorcock's literary creations include Hawkmoon, Corum, Von Bek, Jerry Cornelius and, of course, his most famous character, Elric. His tenure as editor of New Worlds magazine in the sixties and seventies is seen as the high watermark of SF editorship in the UK, and was crucial in the development of the SF New Wave. Michael Moorcock is also a musician who has performed since the seventies with his own band, the Deep Fix and, as a member of the prog rock band, Hawkwind, won a gold disc. In 1999, he was given the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award in 2001, he was inducted into the SF Hall of Fame and in 2007, he was named a SFWA Grandmaster. The author of many literary novels and stories in practically every genre, his novels have won and been shortlisted for numerous awards including the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Whitbread and Guardian Fiction Prize.
This is the classic novel that established the career of perhaps contemporary science fiction’s most cerebral and innovative author.Michael Moorcock is one of the most important figures in British SF and Fantasy literature. First published in 1969, Behold the Man broke through science fiction’s genre boundaries to create a poignant reflection on faith, disillusion and self-sacrifice. 29, Glogauer finds that Jesus Christ is not the man that history and faith would like to believe, but that there is an opportunity for someone to change the course of history by making the ultimate sacrifice. 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. Classic offerings include the Nebula Awardwinning novella Behold the Man, which introduces a time traveler and unlikely messiah that H.G. 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. Intense, delicate and brutal, it explores the psyche of one man as he faces his ultimate fate. 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. Expanded from the NEBULA-winning 1966 novella, BEHOLD THE MAN is one of the greatest books of Moorcock's long and varied career. You can read this before Behold the Man PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Behold the Man written by Michael Moorcock which was published in 1969–. Brief Summary of Book: Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock
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