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Bethany
A Science Fiction Novella by Adam Roberts
Subgenres & Tropes:
- Time Travel,
- Religious Fiction,
- Biblical Fiction
This book is for you if you're into...
- Time travel with high-stakes theological dilemmas
- Provocative questions about faith, mortality, and the limits of belief
"Bethany" is a time-travel narrative in the tradition of Moorcock's "Behold the Man", and a theological novel in the tradition of Nabokov's "Invitation to a Beheading".
A time traveler returns to the Holy Land in the early years of the first-century AD with the following macabre mission: to shoot Jesus with a 21st-century rifle, after he has been crucified and resurrected but before he ascends to heaven.
Is he a radical atheist? An agent of Satan? Or does he intend to test the status of the post-resurrection Jesus?
We might assume that such an action would have three possible outcomes: Christ might be simply killed, and remain dead; Christ might be killed and then simply re-resurrect; or Christ might prove unkillable.
But could so blasphemous an action be motivated by mere curiosity?
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