3.5
Towing Jehovah
By James MorrowPublisher Description
God is dead, and Anthony Van Horne must tow the corpse to the Arctic (to preserve Him from sharks and decomposition). En route Van Horne must also contend with ecological guilt, a militant girlfriend, sabotage both natural and spiritual, and greedy hucksters of oil, condoms, and doubtful ideas. Winner of a 1995 World Fantasy Award.
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SRiola
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Whitney F
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“Irreverant satirical story without much depth. Gotta be in the mood for it, which i wasnt.
God is dead and his body falls into the sea. The dying angels appear to thomas tasking him with the job of towing his body to the burial site they have prepared, only not everyone wants proof to leak out.
Not as much depth as their should have been for my tastes. This story is fine, but nothing special.”
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“World Fantasy Award Winners: 1995
As I've been getting through the world fantasy award winners, I've tried to finish the books in groupings by decade-- with the 70s and 80s now complete, this is my first entry from the 90s.
Upon reading the premise, Towing Jehovah immediately shot to the top of my list; God is dead and His body is to be towed across the ocean, to be entombed in the Arctic, preserved for the future.The presence of such a sight causes doubt and distress among the faithful and non-faithful alike.
It is a fantastic and bizarre premise that gave this novel a ton of promise... However, while it's not the worst WFA novel I've read, it's certainly the most disappointing and is ultimately, very much a mixed bag. The novel begins with a somber and eerie tone, lighting the conceit of the novel as something very troubling and earth-shattering, but it very quickly turns into a satirical almost-comedy, cartoonishly exaggerating christians, atheists, feminists, Jews and the intelligentsia in equal measures, written in a demeaning and reductionist viewpoint. With its ironic, post-modernist approach of highlighting brand-names and pop-culture references, it functions as a scathing criticism of capitalistic consumerism (and religion's often-troubling relationship with it) which gives it some validity as a satire, but it's very far from subtle, nuanced or clever.
I didn't find it wholly unenjoyable, and the sudden change in tone was something I eventually got used to, but it's definitely not the novel I was expecting, and not in a good way.”
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About James Morrow
Born in 1947, James Morrow has been writing fiction ever since he, as a seven-year-old living in the Philadelphia suburbs, dictated “The Story of the Dog Family” to his mother, who dutifully typed it up and bound the pages with yarn. This three-page, six-chapter fantasy is still in the author’s private archives. Upon reaching adulthood, Jim produced nine novels of speculative fiction, including the critically acclaimed Godhead Trilogy. He has won the World Fantasy Award (for Only Begotten Daughter and Towing Jehovah), the Nebula Award (for “Bible Stories for Adults, No. 17: The Deluge” and the novella City of Truth), and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (for the novella Shambling Towards Hiroshima). A fulltime fiction writer, Jim makes his home in State College, Pennsylvania, with his wife, his son, an enigmatic sheepdog, and a loopy beagle. He is hard at work on a novel about Darwinism and its discontents.
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