SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY

DAVID V BARRETT ROUNDS UP THE LATEST TITLES FROM THE WORLD OF SPECULATIVE AND FANTASTIC FICTION

Him Geoff Ryman Angry Robot/Watkins 2023 Pb, 366pp, £9.99, ISBN 9781915202673 A young woman, Maryam, becomes pregnant in an unusual way: “I didn’t do anything.” She’s hurriedly married off to a troublesome preacher, Yosef, who is exiled from Yerusalam to the obscure northern village of Nazareth to live in dusty poverty. Maryam names her daughter Avigayil – but four or five years later the child insists: “My name now is Yehushua… I’m a boy.” Over the years, Yehush hangs out with boys in the village and becomes an apprentice to the tekton, the local builder. At 12, already showing significant spiritual awareness, Yehush confounds the priests and scholars at the temple in Yerusalam in a beautifully-written scene. Life goes on, Maryam has six more children, and Yehush grows into a…

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