The Messiah Game: A Comedy of Terrors - Part Two: The Messiah Emerges
Part two of this stark novel continues in a postapocalyptic society as Arn Parek, a simple, psychic con man, begins to buy into his own toxic beliefs and inflated ego. He becomes a messianic figure who uses his followers’ devotion to prey upon the rest of society. A parallel tale chronicles the exploitation of the planet’s inhabitants by a voyeuristic galactic civilization and its religion’s interference in its affairs. The female journalists, through whom the story is told, record the misery of the planet’s inhabitants, the psychology of their gullibility, and the details of Arn Parek’s systemic tricks and scams.
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Tom Flynn
Thomas W. Flynn, aka Tom Flynn, is an author, journalist, novelist, entertainer, folklorist, Executive Director of the Council for Secular Humanism, and Editor of its journal Free Inquiry magazine. He is also director of the Robert Green Ingersoll Birthplace Museum. Much of his work addresses church-state issues, including the 1993 book The Trouble With Christmas, about which he has made hundreds of radio and TV appearances in his role as the curmudgeonly “anti-Claus.” He is also the author of the anti-religious black comedy science fiction novel, Galactic Rapture (2000) and its sequel, Nothing Sacred (2004). His latest work, The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief (2007), is a comprehensive reference work on the history, beliefs, and thinking of America’s fastest growing minority: those who live without religion. He is currently writing a third science-fiction novel set in the Galactic Rapture universe.
The Messiah Game
The Messiah Game consists of two books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
