Monday, 22 February 2010 15:27
A new short story, Second Journey of the Magus, written for my forthcoming collection Journeys, is available to read at Subterranean On-Line. Lois Tilton reviewing the story at Locus On-Line kindly recommends it and says. . . .
With this powerfully disturbing tale of faith and doubt, MacLeod joins a notable list of authors who have reimagined the temptations of Christ. It is not really an alternate history; Jesus' choice has taken the story entirely out of history into eschatology. This vision of Jerusalem transformed by a Satanic Christ is strongly unsettling in its resemblance to the heavenly city of so many pious imaginations. But the conclusion may leave the reader puzzled as Balthasar finally makes his own choice, which the author leaves us to imagine.
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