The Book of David by Robert Boyczuk

By Robert Boyczuk

In Heaven above, God wept for his kids, whereas his Angels burnt and fell to earth.

The Spheres of the Apostles: a synthetic international along with sizeable concentric spheres. A millennium has handed because the Spheres have been first seeded via the Catholic Church and few have in mind the persecution from which they fled; even fewer are conscious of the structures quietly functioning and malfunctioning round them. the area is just the realm as God has made it and so past their ken. Angels, a genetically changed elite, have trapped themselves in decrease Heaven and will merely detect because the global slowly comes undone, whereas males scratch out a meagre life in Spheres lower than, bothered with the violence that accompanies the disintegration of spiritual authority. In an try to wrest scarce assets from the Angels, the Papacy has declared struggle on reduce Heaven, whereas under, a military of the negative and dispossessed gathers, readying to march on Rome. . . .

At the behest of the Archangel Zeracheil, Thomas descends into this chaos, his basically solace a publication that comprises the entire tales ever written. observed via his unborn son, who speaks to him via drug-induced visions, and a Catharsist, a synthetic guy with a soul, Thomas starts off his trip to Hell, within the desire that he may possibly staunch the move of God’s blood, and, in doing so, redeem the human Spheres./

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