The Godhead Trilogy: Towing Jehovah / Blameless in Abaddon / The Eternal Footman

Godhead #1-3

by James K. Morrow

The complete Godhead Trilogy from James Morrow, including Towing Jehovah, Blameless in Abaddon, and The Eternal Footman. TOWING 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.

BLAMELESS IN In this "funny, ferocious fantasy" (Philadelphia Inquirer), God is a comatose, two-mile-long tourist attraction at a Florida theme park-until a conniving judge decides to put Him on trial in The Hague for crimes against humanity. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year.

THE ETERNAL The Eternal Footman completes Morrow's darkly comic trilogy about God's untimely demise. With God's skull in orbit, competing with the moon, a plague of "death awareness" spreads across the Western hemisphere. As the United States sinks into apocalypse, two people fight to preserve life and sanity. One is Nora Burkhart, a schoolteacher who will stop at nothing to save her only son, Kevin. The other is the genius sculptor Gerard Korty, who struggles to create a masterwork that will heal the metaphysical wounds of the age. A few a bloody battle on a New Jersey golf course between Jews and anti-Semites; a theater troupe's stirring dramatization of the Gilgamesh epic; and a debate between Martin Luther and Erasmus. Morrow also gives us his most chilling villain Dr. Adrian Lucido, founder of a new pagan church in Mexico and inventor of a cure worse than any disease.

Genres: Science Fiction

1205 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2014

About the author

Born in 1947, James Kenneth 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.

Reviews

[Steve Crooks · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lots of quasi religion/fantasy and a bit of swashbuckling as well. A good read though not edge-of-the-seat stuff. The third book was marred by very faulty proofreading or spellchecking with replacement of perceived errors with another error. Notably where a lower case "r" occured in the text next to an lower case "n" it usually became a lower case "m." there are other instances where there was some confusion until one decided what had been intended.....or maybe it was all intended just the way it apppeared. Who could tell!

[Kathy · Rating 2 out of 5]

This sounded funny in the advertising, and it had its moments, but basically it was not that good a fantasy/sci-fi offering, and I can't in good conscience recommend that my friends read it. I did get a dose of theosophy (interesting throughout), and I learned a new word = theodicy :-)

[Lynn · Rating 5 out of 5]

I thoroughly enjoyed this trilogy pointing out the silliness in organized religion.

[Alejandro Gonzalez · Rating 3 out of 5]

Starts Out Strong, Doesn't Last

I enjoyed book one tremendously. After that, the satire got stale and underwhelming. It became a chore to read. It tries a bit too hard.