Godbody

A Christ figure comes to a small American town, bearing a message of love and compassion, expressed through making love. Some hear the message and are changed, others seek to destroy it. Despite the focus on love through sex, this is not camouflaged pornography, but a sincere attempt to present this vision by a master of speculative fiction.Sturgeon presents the story through the first-person accounts of the people in the town, and handles this technique well.Robert Heinlein, Stephen King, and Stephen Donaldson all praise the book highly.

Not really Sci-Fi, but a captivating, breathtaking story. A fine dose of sex added in for flavor. Sturgeon shows with this that he is quite versatile in style and very fluid and original in the art of writing literature. As good as More Than Human and The Dreaming Jewels.

A remarkably achievement in writing! The story is told through a serious of first person chapters. Each character has his own unique voice, manarisms, point of view, and character. Each character's voice and personalty are so different that I found it hard to believe the book was written by just one person. Anyone even remotely serious about learning the craft of writing must read this book!

Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" is a short, yet poignant story about relationships between people. "Godbody" is also a short, equally poignant story about the relationships between people and God. Sturgeon's final book is his most important, and will bring you a new awareness of yourself and your beliefs.