Behold the man is a 1969 novella by Michael Moorcock. It's only about 130 pages long and you can read it in a couple of hours. It won a science fiction award once. I bought it for 2 quid from amazon.
I picked the book up because it got a good review in a recent issue of SFX magazine. The plot is about a British time-traveller who journeys back in time to meet Jesus in 29AD. I pretty much guessed exactly what would happen as soon as I read a summary of the plot.
It's an easy read although the book is clearly a product of the 1960's . None of the twists in the book are exactly mindblowing but it's worth a read. If Christians were in any way irritable this book would have provoked a Salman Rushdie style fatwah on Moorcock. Thankfully most Christians don't really care.
Worth a read.
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