The Last Days of Jericho
Thomas Brookside
4.00 · 1 ratings · Published: 25 Jun 2010
It cannot be stopped. It cannot be turned aside.
And the monster is...God Himself.
The Canaanite city of Yarich is home to a society that is literate, cosmopolitan...and doomed. Sakal, caravan-master to the "Melek" or king of the city-state, recounts the tale of the increasingly desperate battle for survival waged by an urban culture against fanatical outsiders - nomads from the desert wielding a terrible supernatural power.
Half "Deuteronomy", half "Gojira", it examines the horror that arises from the knowledge of inexorable fate, and explores the moral ambiguity at the heart of the Old Testament tales that help make up the foundation of western civilization.
Critiquing the Judeo-Christian tradition by taking it literally, the book combines elements from disaster fiction, monster and "kaiju" horror, and the ancient Ugaritic and Egyptian epic cycles to transform a biblical story of miracle and triumph into an apocalyptic tragedy.
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