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Towing Jehovah
384 pages
A bizarre and biting maritime satire where the ultimate theological crisis becomes a chaotic scramble for human exploitation.
What it feels like
Reading this book feels like embarking on a deeply absurd, darkly comedic maritime voyage. The narrative moves at a brisk, escalating pace as a monumental theological crisis—the literal death of the divine—gives way to chaotic human opportunism. The tone is sharply satirical and irreverent, wrapping profound existential questions in the bizarre logistics of a supertanker dragging a two-mile-long corpse across the ocean. The mood shifts from awe-inspiring and surreal to cynically chaotic as secrets leak and various factions scramble to exploit the situation. Written with a sharp, conceptual edge, it is perfect for readers who delight in high-concept science fiction that skewers religious institutions and human greed with unapologetic absurdity.
- Mood
- bizarre
- chaotic
- oceanic
- darkly comedic
- Tone
- satirical
- irreverent
- absurd
- cynical
- Pace
- brisk
- Themes
- the death of the divine · human opportunism · religious absurdity · existential crisis · exploitation of the sacred
- The writing
- Sharp and satirical, balancing grandiose theological concepts with the gritty logistics of ocean travel.
- The arc
- Moves from a monumental, surreal premise into a chaotic escalation of human greed and existential absurdity.
- Who it's for
- Readers who enjoy biting religious satire and absurd, high-concept science fiction.
Content notes
- death of a deity
- religious satire
About the book
A satirical novel on the death of God. For inexplicable reasons he dies and falls into the sea, and the Vatican hires a supertanker to secretly tow his two-mile-long body to the Arctic for preservation. But the secret leaks out and everyone gets in on the act, exploiting God's death to their own end.
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