It’s only been a wait of a dozen years, but one of my personal favorites of my books, The End of Daze, has just been published in paperback and ebook formats by Madness Heart Press. Finally! It came out under their imprint Aggadah Try It, which is a specialty imprint focused on science fiction, fantasy, and horror of Jewish interest.
In essence, my novel is a satirical Jewish version of the Left Behind series that answers the question, “What if the End of Days arrives and the traditional Jewish version is the accurate one?” As you may imagine, chaos ensues, with the other, much larger world faiths being very unhappy, particularly those followers of Islam — and the progressive elements of the Jewish community are among the biggest critics of G-d’s reemergence onto the scene.
Here’s the back cover copy:
“Jacob Zvi has turned his back on everything he was taught to value. His faith, his family, his citizenship, and even his morals. Yet seemingly divine fate introduces Jacob to the struggling members of an Orthodox congregation in the middle of a ghetto in New Orleans while terrorists explode a purloined Soviet nuclear artillery shell atop the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
“But things quickly take a turn for the Biblical, for the worthy dead are returning to life to build a Third Temple atop the now radioactive Temple Mount, scoured empty by the atomic blast. They return not to bodies of flesh and blood, but to cybernetic bodies produced in an advanced robotics lab on the Tulane campus, part of a secret project funded by the Department of Homeland Security.
“The End of Days has begun, but unlike anything that has been anticipated by Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, or Muslim. When Jacob is inexplicably selected to serve as God’s mouthpiece, and he finds he makes for a clownishly awkward prophet of God’s Kingdom on Earth.
“But he will have to up his game immeasurably in order to broker peace with all the factions who bitterly reject this version of the End Times—chief among them progressive Jews themselves! THE END OF DAZE is a science fiction eschatological satire fitting for the End Times encroaching on the twenty-first century.”
You can purchase a paperback copy for $14.95 or an ebook for $4.99 from Amazon:
And here is the full wraparound cover for the paperback:
