The Messengers Will Come No More

Description for THE MESSENGERS WILL COME NO MORE by Leslie A Fiedler:

Leslie Fiedler is that rare man of letters who has succeeded in transforming our view of American literature. His innovative fiction is read for its insights as much as for story and Character. THE MESSENGERS WILL COME NO MORE is his most daring fictional experiment to date.

In his new novel Fiedler steps 500 years into the future in the person of Jacob, an archeologist who specializes in the "old Sciences" of the twentieth Century. Jacob's adventures take him from the handsome black goddess rulers of his native Gynocracy, to dalliance with a girl from the Ancient Hypsie Cult, to an encounter with the Meta-Technicians, a robot clan in search of knowledge, and most important, to the long buried Scrolls whose message he is determined to record and save.

It happens in the 25th century, but the future in Fiedler's hands is no "science fiction" as we have come to understand it. It is a revelation of the present, told, as it were, from the future looking back, and it is also a re-exploration of our past, in particular the Christian religion, in the light of the future. To those who experience THE MESSENGERS WLL COME NO MORE, none of our institutions will ever seem quite the same.

As in COME BACK TO THE RAFT AGI'N HUCK HONEY, Fiedler presents his insights through entertainment. He takes on pedantry, anti-intellectualism, in the University, the so-called Judeo-Christian tradition, and considers the persistent human search for God.

This book may evoke as much commotion in Academia as did LOVE AND DEATH IN AMERICAN NOVEL, whish is now being taught by the same people who were originally outraged by it.