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In the beginning was a spaceship. And the spaceship was called A.R.K. 2001...
Both of the crew members are robots. The pilot is Mike and the navigator is Gaby, and together they are about to do something quite remarkable. For orbiting around a world called Earth, Mike and Gaby are all set to consign two humans to the surface of the planet. And in these two experimental prototypes, named Adam and Eve after a couple of pot-plants, the entire robot cosmos has placed its hope of survival. They know it's a slim hope. After all, who knows how a new species will develop? Anything could happen.
Wickedly funny and brilliantly original, MIKE AND GABY'S SPACE GOSPEL is Ken Russell's first novel.
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Ken Russell's first attempt at a science fiction novel is a genially sacrilegious, and hardly original, rehearsal of the career of Christ as an experiment by robot intelligence from outer space. Mike and Gaby create the entire history of humanity in a desperate attempt by their machine civilisation to find the answer to an insidious plague of rust, and Jesus Christ is the culmination of their plan. Thus, almost all of the miracles are last minute improvisations, with ramshackle technology that often crashes, by them or their horned opponent from some rival civilisation. And yet, somehow, their instrument has a mind of His own--this is not quite as irreverent a book as it at first sight seems, and this Jesus has a dignity entirely unaffected by the mechanical clowns that think they are pulling His strings. Much of the interaction of the two robots is more touching than one might expect-- Russell is a bit of an old softy at heart in spite of his attempts at cynicism. And even the predictable jokes in dubious taste--the feeding of five thousand involves smoked salmon and bagels, and there are complaints about the absence of cream cheese--have the charm of old friends. --Roz Kaveney
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Russell has never let good taste stand in the way of his thunderous muse and he makes no exception here (THE TIMES)
Chaotic, lurid and often silly; it is also funny, inventive and totally without pretension (DAILY TELEGRAPH)
His first novel is one of his more surreal efforts...But it wouldn't be Ken Russell without a dollop of controversy would it? (MIRROR)
Russell [handles] his subject with wit and some inventiveness, as well as coming up with some really good blasphemous jokes. (GLASGOW HERALD)
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- PublisherTime Life UK
- Publication date1982
- ISBN 10 0705406385
- ISBN 13 9780705406383
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages176
- EditorTime-Life Books Of
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