They Call Me Carpenter: A Tale of the Second Coming

Synopsis

Sinclair "wrote several fantasies featuring Messiah figures, whose defeat by the modern world is described satirically. They Call Me Carpenter (1922) is delusional; in Our Lady: A Story (1938) Marya, mother of Jesus ( Christ ), is brought by timeslip to the modern world; and What Didymus Did (1954 UK; vt It Happened to Didymus 1958 US) argues that it is now too late for war to be stopped even through the intervention of an Angel and a man whom he has given the power to perform Miracles ." (underscore represents linked cross-reference in original) --SFE: Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), biographical entry by John Clute