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God's Body: Book One - The Fall (The God's Body Chronicles 1) Kindle Edition

by Jeff Bowles (Author), Pat Steiner (Illustrator) Format: Kindle Edition
4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
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Two enormous beings taller than sky scrapers fall to earth and battle to the death. In the chaos that follows, a dropout med student, an out of work screenwriter, and a middle schooler with a flair for comic books struggle to survive in a world on the edge of collapse. A newly birthed avatar of evil soon rises, threatening total devastation and the last days of man. Now, two young men (and that frickin' kid, too) must band together and stop the darkness before it spreads. This is the fall of the world as we know it....
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    The God's Body Chronicles
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    269 pages
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    English
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  5. Publication date
    June 14, 2019
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    4336 KB
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"God's Body is an Armageddon story like no other; a post apocalyptic tale of good vs. evil in the best of pulp fantasy traditions, if such traditions existed. Bowles pulls out all the stops, using humor, irony and contemplation of the human condition to tell his tale with skill and craftsmanship. Everything about this story is of epic scale." - Writing to be Read

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Illustrator's of the Future winner Pat R. Steiner provides stunningfull-page artwork that links each chapter to the next. Highly detailed,larger than life, and just a bit twisted, the illustrations of God's Body help tell the story in an engaging and dynamic way.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07SKCNBRZ
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ God Machine Publishing (June 14, 2019)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 14, 2019
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 4336 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 269 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 29 ratings

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    As a child, Pat R. Steiner once found himself hanging from a nail pounded into a tree. Left there by his older siblings, he happily communed with the tree until his mother dragged the whereabouts of the missing younger brother from the guilt-ridden children. Since then he has had a fascination with nature (including the human variety) along with its many mysteries. His writings and art are his attempts to explain these Big Questions as well as those more mundane. Pat is the author of the dark fantasy novel Enlarge Your Tentacles, Overnight! as well as the novellas Wyrd and The White Hart. His short stories have appeared in Eric Flint's Grantville Gazette: Universe Annex and alongside Stephen King in the horror/science fiction anthology Qualia Nous. Pat is also a winner in the long-running international Illustrators of the Future Contest. He lives in Wisconsin with his wife and two children.

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    Jeff Bowles is a science fiction and horror writer from the mountains of Colorado. The best of his outrageous and imaginative short stories are collected in Godling and Other Paint Stories, Fear and Loathing in Las Cruces, and Brave New Multiverse. He has published work in magazines and anthologies like Tales from the Canyons of the Damned, Podcastle, the Threepenny Review, and Dark Moon Digest. Jeff earned his Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing at Western State Colorado University. He currently lives in the high-altitude Pikes Peak region, where he dreams strange dreams and spends far too much time under the stars.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Very very very cool premise
Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2022
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God and Satan have perished. What now?

Furthermore, are God and Satan kaijus? i love this interpretation of gods!!!!
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Shawn of Earth
4.0 out of 5 stars Graphic novel in novel form
Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2023
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The writing is tight like a comic book and we’ll done. The graphics for the chapters were well done and didn’t take away from the reading.
However, I thought the story needed control of the amount of characters and better scenes.

That’s why I felt this was a graphic novel in novel form. If we had pictures along with the characters it wouldn’t have been as confusing and we would have known where all the action took place.

This was an interesting take as a form of media telling though and a nice premise. I am curious of this format working with a small group of characters and fewer settings.

If you want a book that’s experimental and interesting, this is for you.
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Dr. R
3.0 out of 5 stars the end of the world as we know it
Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2022
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I picked up this e-book because I enjoyed the author’s novel “Resurrection Mixtape.” I expected a novel like James Blish’s Black Easter. The art added to the comic-book experience. The president constantly worrying about his toupee in the middle of the cataclysm was funny. The giant bodies reminded me of J.G. Ballard’s "The Drowned Giant" (animated by Netflix on Love, Death, & Robots season 3). Then it transitioned into Chuck Palahniuk’s Damned on acid, with of stream of consciousness (and literal streams of blood).

Settings were never well established, but in chapter 12, we have no idea where “here” is. By the final conflict, there are no rules. Everybody teleports everywhere and wills whatever they want. I found the ending disconnected and unsatisfying.
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Tessa Nicolosi
5.0 out of 5 stars A Great First Book in a Promising Series!
Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2019
Jeff Bowles’ “God’s Body: The Fall” is a rarity, as rarely does a book succeed in capturing and keeping my attention for as long as Bowles has managed to. For one, Bowles is excellent at setting scenes, whether they involve characters destructing atom by atom or merely cutting up PB&J sandwiches. Speaking of characters, Bowles’ book has no shortage of them, each of the them equally as fascinating as any other.

Bowles is also a master of balancing seriousness and drama with a sense of humor. As a result, while many other science-fiction and action-adventure authors often come off a bit elitist, Bowles’ book is fun while never sacrificing professionalism or dramatics.

Steiner’s illustrations are equally as enchanting and had me looking forward to the start of each chapter. Furthermore, the book looks gorgeously and professionally formatted, making for a pleasant read that’ll have even the most diehard science-fiction fans enraptured from start to finish.

I highly recommend “God’s Body: The Fall” to anyone interested in science-fiction or similar genres as well as anyone looking for a great introduction to the rest of Bowles’ literary catalog, just as it was for me!
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Stephen J. Wolf
4.0 out of 5 stars God’s dead… now what?
Reviewed in the United States on November 15, 2022
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It’s the apocalypse now that God and Satan have died. How dies humanity survive without their spiritual figureheads?

This was a unique read and reminded me at times of Rick and Morty, in a good way. It was interesting seeing how the various characters came together. A few parts of the story were a bit creepy, which wasn’t unexpected, as this is tagged in a horror genre.

A few scene jumps were jarring for me, but otherwise this was an entertaining read.
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Dancer89
3.0 out of 5 stars DNF
Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2022
Not for me.
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Dee
5.0 out of 5 stars Intense and dramatic read
Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2019
The illustrations at the beginning of the book were incredibly enigmatic, setting the tone for what was to come. Bowles writing style is dramatic and he draws you into his story with the depth of its intensity. He weaves a narrative where the ancient scriptures are reenacted in modern day life.

The characters feel like people we already know which is why it comes as such a a pleasant surprise when this biblical apocalyptic world is constructed around it. I'm not sure who Bowles literary influences are, but there was something that felt reminiscent of Chuck Palahniuk and Neil Gaiman.

I didn't expect the illustrations that continued chapter after chapter. It reminded me of those satirical cartoonists that draw for newspapers. I especially loved the illustration before chapter 10, 17. This book could be readapted for a great graphic novel.

The epilogue made me grin, but I'm not going to give away the ending - best you find out for yourself. This book is impressively designed and I highly recommend you get the paperback copy!
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Thomas Didymus
4.0 out of 5 stars Very cool premise!
Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2019
Not that I like the idea that God is dead, but this novel has a very *novel* and super cool premise: a global, supernatural-based apocalypse caused by epically massive bodies. The bodies of the titans are both five miles tall, so when they fall, much of the action centers on scaling, investigating, witnessing, and exploring physical beings the size of cities.

Check out this awesome description:
"The toe was an ungodly mountain of flesh. As massive as it was inexplicable. It clung to the Earth like a bulbous pink tumor. Enormous, all-encompassing, the height of a skyscraper, the breadth of Niagara Falls. Rain water washed through its thick patchwork of crevasses and cracks. Long vertical rivers lapped at skin-cell canyon walls. There were flash creeks and tidal waves. The toenail itself was the hanging shelf of the world. Then Harold looked higher and saw the rest. Lord God Almighty. In the murky green haze of a sudden and tempestuous thunderstorm, the creature looked like God, with the classic God robe and the classic God beard and the stern, fatherly expression one would expect God to wear. This was God. It was. Harold knew it was, even if reason and relative plausibility eluded him. If God was five miles tall, he would not have been surprised."
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