Conversation with the wife now about why the angry Christian types don’t froth about Dan Simmons’ Hyperion/Endymion series.

I mean, it’s literally about the second coming of Christ, sent by god to die a horrible death so that humanity can be redeemed, only god is us, if we heed the message, sending said sacrifice back through time, and she’s a teenage girl because apparently the carpenter from Nazareth had one job (apart from the carpentry gig), which he fucked up, so she’s sent to do it properly, and it’s the Catholic Church which tortures her to death this time round.

Anyway, the conclusion was that they aren’t upset because the books are longer than their attention spans.