Finalist for the British Science Fiction Association award.
Locus Award shortlist.
Nominated for the Gigamesh anthology award.
Prometheus Award finalist.
Included in the list “Defining Science Fiction of the 1980s.”
Herb Asher meets, on a remote planet, a God named YHWH, and realizes that his duty is to help bring God back to Earth. Earth is under the full control of Belial—the spirit of lies and nothingness. Asher must ensure that the woman pregnant with YHWH bypasses the security systems protecting the dictatorship of the demonic Empire.
In “The Supreme Invasion,” Philip K. Dick asks: “What if God—or some image of God by the name YHWH—is alive and in exile on a distant planet? How could a second coming succeed in the struggle against advanced technology and finely tuned, rationalized evil within a modern police state?”
“A novel that blends Judaism, Kabbalah, Zoroastrianism, and Christianity into an engaging parable about human existence.” — West Coast Review Books