The Second Coming of Charles Darwin

Amazon.com, 2005, Digital

Product Description

I wrote this satiric fable in hopes of adding a new and phantasmagorical wrinkle to the Darwin Wars, the ongoing conflict between religious conservatives and evolutionary thinkers over the source of our planet's biological diversity. The plot turns on Omar, a cyborg tortoise dispatched via time machine from a high-tech future to the Galápagos Islands of September 10, 1835. His audacious mission: to alter the local fauna so radically that, when Charles Darwin arrives seven days hence, he will never become inspired to father the theory of natural selection.

Product Details

Title: The Second Coming of Charles Darwin
Sales Rank: 767505 in Books
Author: James Morrow
Publisher: Amazon.com, 2005-06-21, Digital, 23 pages

Customer Reviews

A work of distinction: Ah, heck. I just had to read this tale of a cyborg Galápagos; a programmed, impulsive yet morally compassed tortoise on an extinction mission. A lightly humorous and remarkably intellectual heavy weight, The Second Coming of Charles Darwin is both crisp and entertaining. James Morrow writes with almost cynic distinction to produce a satirical epiphany that may dictate a second reading in order to grasp… More reviews

Unusual and Awesome: "The Second coming of Charles Darwin" tells the story of a cyborg tortoise and his companion, a religious zealot, on their quest to prevent the development of Darwin's theory of evolution. In other words, this story is a model of quirkiness and offbeat sensibilities. The main character, though a cyborg tortoise, has more personality and vibrancy than many a human protagonist and the history… More reviews

MORROW HAS A STYLE OF HIS OWN! FASCINATING CONCEPT!: I could tell by the title this would be a satire, and what a satire it is! James Morrow at his best!
He must have written it with his tongue planted firmly between his teeth ... and I read it with a big grin on my face. He certainly knows how to turn a phrase and how to make his readers think.
However, I didn't have… More reviews

Definitely not Fictionus Genericus: James Morrow is one of those authors that comes along only a couple of times in a lifetime who can leave you staring at the wall, lost in thought, but grinning because you can imagine the twinkle in his eyes as he turns each phrase. From the first of his works I read, "Towing Jehovah," to this last piece, I've been fascinated, captivated, and… More reviews

Always the points counterpoint: Jim Morrow has returned after a few years without a book on the shelves to bring us his prose in short form; an area in which his ideas excel and don't feel rushed or squashed.
In "The Second Coming of Charles Darwin" we meet a automatonic galapogos tortoise who is sent back in time with a vengeant man wanting to right the moral wrings of the… More reviews