About This Book
The Goddess of Wisdom has been known to ancient humans by many names: Seshat to the Egyptians, Athena to the Greeks, Minerva to the Romans, Brigid to the Celts, Sofia to the Gnostics, Saraswati to the Hindus, and by many other names to many other ancient peoples. The Goddess happened to witness a completely selfless good deed performed by Spencer, an eccentric computer programmer. Touched, She offers him a favor. This is something that She often does on a whim. The gods and goddesses are spontaneous and sometimes inconsistent. They interact with humans for their own amusement and for their own enlightenment. More than anything else, though, they interact with humans for experience and sensation. The transient nature of human life is an exciting alternative to the beginning-less, endless, changeless, eternal existence in which they find themselves. They crave change, surprise, the unexpected, and the opportunity to experience different kinds of behavior. The nature of Spencer's request surprises Her, but She grants his wish. The world changed dramatically as a result. Spencer thereafter assists the Goddess in many ways, some of them erratic, some of them bizarre, and some of them violent. There is not a single cliché in this novel. The reader will be continuously surprised. There is a lot of tongue-in-cheek humor, but it is a serious book, nevertheless. Fantasy readers have never read anything like it. There has never been a hero like Spencer. The supernatural beings who are characters in this novel will surprise and amuse the reader. The novel's characters are not good or evil; they are both good and evil.
