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PHILIP JOS├Й FARMER

JESUS ON MARS

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JESUS ON MARS

Richard Orme was confused. As the captive leader of an expedition to Mars, he
is eager to learn just what game his Martian 'hosts' are playing at. The man in the
golden orb that floats above their subterranean cities - is he really Jesus? And
when this 'Jesus' returns to Earth - would history repeat itself, once more? Orme
does not know who to turn to in this strange, hollowed-out planet - not the Krsh
teachers, nor the man they call Jesus, nor even the comely Martian whose
dangerous love so kindles his desires...
 To my mother




Philip Jose Farmer ┬й1979

Granada Paperback UK Original 1982
Granada Publishing Ltd.

ISDN 0 586 05308 5




1
The great canyon complex of the Vallis Marineris was a black wound on a red
body. It ran for 3,000 miles from east to west near the equator of Mars. At its
widest it was fifty miles and at its deepest several miles. If it resembled a terrible
gash in a corpse, it also looked like a colossal centipede, the legs being the
channels winding through the highlands towards the vast rift, and the bristles on
the legs, the subtributaries.
From the Aries, in a stationary orbit, Richard Orme looked down as if from
an incredibly high mountain. A rapidly dying wind was blowing high clouds of ice
crystals and low clouds of red dust across part of the complex, obscuring the
section that was their goal after four months of voyage. He turned from the port
and floated towards Madeleine Danton. She was seated before a viewscreen,
her waist belted to a chair, which was bolted to the deck. Behind her floated
Nadir Shirazi and Avram Bronski. Their hands gripped the back of the chair while
they stared over her shoulders at the screen.
Orme seized Shirazi's shoulder, swivelled around, and steadied himself.