Publisher's Synopsis
Holy Night is a blending of an old mystery with a new one, the ancient tale of Gods nativity on Earth but within modern cosmology's discovery that our planet is just one tiny dot in a colossal universe that emerged billions of years before the Bethlehem event. The result is a science fiction drama which quickly widens into a cosmic power struggle. It begins in the "Star" which hovers over Bethlehem and soon develops into a confrontation between a God and a Satan who look disconcertingly like each other. But the drama isn't always intense. The scene in which God manages to make Satan laugh for the first time in his existence, and then can't help joining in until they're both helpless, is one instance of a strand that threads its way all through the book, from cosmic to comic and back again. Another major theme is God's childlike thirst for learning. Satan becomes his tutor on the facts of evolution; Joseph on the facts of human nature; and Labass (chief scientist in Satan's underground Creation Room) on the faulty chemistry of creation itself. The criticisms of all three are sharp, accurate, deep - and welcome . God knows he must learn what he got wrong if he has to have any chance of putting it right.
