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Behold the Man

Karl Glogauer

Michael Moorcock

Nebula Award winning novella. The story originally appeared in New Worlds SF, September 1966. It can also be found in the anthologies World's Best Science Fiction: 1967, edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr, Nebula Award Stories Three (1968), edited by Roger Zelazny, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume III (1981), edited by Arthur C. Clarke and George W. Proctor, and The Best of the Nebulas (1989), edited by Ben Bova. The story is included in the collections Moorcock's Book of Martyrs (1976), Dying for Tomorrow (1978) and The Best of Michael Moorcock (2009). It was expanded to the full novel Behold the Man (1969).

Behold the Man

Karl Glogauer: Book 1

Michael Moorcock

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 Palestine, A.D. 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.

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. This is the classic novel that established the career of perhaps contemporary science fiction's most cerebral and innovative author.

Breakfast in the Ruins

Karl Glogauer: Book 2

Michael Moorcock

Considered a companion volume to Behold, The Man.