![]() ![]() As the novel progresses we build up a picture of just who Glogauer is. The story jumps between Glogauer's own past and the relative of AD28. Surviving a tough "landing" which wrecks his only means of returning to his own time he is nursed back to health by John the Baptist and his "Essene" sect. It tells the story of the troubled Karl Glogauer, a 20th century missfit who manages to become guinea pig for a time travel experiment, choosing to go back to AD28 - to seek out The Christ. Gollancz has quite rightly chosen to include it in their SF Masterworks Collection. It was later expanded into a very slim novel in 1969 - although at 128 pages it could still be considered novella length. Behold the Man was originally written as a novella in 1966 and won the Nebula award for best novella. ![]()
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