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"Job's back on the old dung heap, and he wants a rematch with God. A Series-700 computer successfully reconstructs the tablets with the Ten Commandments from a million indecipherable shards - only to have second thoughts. Sheila, the lascivious sinner fished from the Flood by the captain of the Ark, has an agenda all her own. A congregation of sexless androids believes Darwin's theory of evolution applies to them and awaits the Great Genital Coming. And God justifies why he once beset mankind with an unusual plague. Why? Spare the rod, spoil the species, He says. (And He's always right. That's why He's got the job.)" "James Morrow unabashedly delves into matters both sacred and secular in this collection of stories buoyed by his deliciously irreverent wit. Among the dozen offerings is "Bible Stories for Adults, No. 17: The Deluge," winner of a Nebula Award for Best Short Story. Humorous, cheerfully blasphemous, and ultimately poignant, these tales show Morrow at his divine best."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved… (more)
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No. 20: The Tower (Great idea to have God as narrator and reverse of Babel.)
No. 31: The Covenant (Cool and original. Funny but some of the arguments against the commandments were a bit of a stretch. Did Satan save the world or just trick it's last hope?)
No: 17, The Deluge (Cool captain's log entries, cool idea about how evil spread even after the deluge.)
The Confessions of Ebenezer Scrooge (Cool use of "Ghost of Present Perfect" type ideas but really just a trick and not that big of a deal.)
Abe Lincoln in McDonald's (I didn't get it at first but the end made sense. Abe Lincoln goes to the future to see what it will be like if he gives up on freeing the slaves. He witnesses a murder and that makes his decision.)
Arms and the Woman (Helen of Troy gets old, fat and wrinkled while the war rages on over her beauty. She's hidden so it doesn't demoralize the troops. When she decides to give herself back they try to kill her and install a fake Helen so they can keep having their war.)
Daughter Earth (Completely absurd but interesting. Woman has a baby that is a biosphere. When the government wants it to experiment on they let it go into space. They find out that the Earth was the experiment and the child is a new earth safe from all the mistakes we made.)
Diary of a Mad Diety (Really dark. Sister get's raped so he develops multiple personalities. Cool idea that he has so many personalities that he becomes God over the personalities.)
Know but to God and Wilbur Hines (I don't really get it. Kind of dark and strange.)
No. 46: The Soap Opera (Job wants an apology. Hilarious and quirky. Great idea.)
Spelling God with the Wrong Blocks (Robots are left to themselves to build a society. They end up establishing genders and worshipping darwin. Also burning heretics. Funny and a cool original idea.)
The Assemblage of Kristin (It was a great idea but confusing for most of the story. A girl donates all her parts when she dies. The people that get the parts get together and when they do she becomes alive in each one of them.)