Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock

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Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock first appeared in the September 1966 edition of New Worlds and won a Nebula Award for Best Novella. In 1969 it was expanded by Moorcock into the version now widely available. In a review I wrote last year I noted that Moorcock is a gap in my reading I […]

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One of the best time travel novels ever, I think.

When we think of the possibility presented by time travel I think the idea of going back to the period of the historical Jesus is right up there with the question of whether going back and offing Adolt Hitler around the time he was a struggling artist is a good idea...

Moorcock's weaving of psychotherapy and the whole idea of miraculous healing in this context was just brilliant also. Of it's time perhaps, but brilliant nonetheless.
 
@Namanari - Indeed! The premise, which seems clichéd now but would have been daring at the time, is brilliantly supported by all the elements Moorcock weaves together. It's hard to imagine such a fundamental time travel concept - going back to witness the death of Jesus - being told any better. Almost perfect in execution.
 
One writer from Russia done it better. Ilja Warshawski Hysteresis Loop, as many of his short stories is very original, intelligent and with sense of humour. I DO very like Moorcock, but sometimes not he makes the best use of an particular concept.
 
@bio Is the Warshawski story available in an English translation (I'm shamefully monolingual)?
 
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