Pagan Passions
A Comic Mythological Satire of Classical Gods, Modern Society, and the Absurdities of Human InstitutionsBy Randall Garrett
Length5h 27m
About this audiobook
Randall Garrett's *Pagan Passions* is a provocative work of speculative fiction that places erotic desire, religious imagination, and social convention in productive tension. Drawing upon the symbolic vocabulary of pre-Christian ritual and myth, the novel examines what happens when supposedly "primitive" beliefs challenge the authority of an ostensibly rational modern order. Garrett's prose is brisk, witty, and plot-conscious, yet the book's pulp-adventure surface conceals a sustained interest in psychology, cultural repression, and the persistence of the sacred. Its combination of sensuality, intellectual argument, and genre action situates it within mid-century science fiction's broader engagement with anthropology, alternative societies, and the critique of respectable norms. Garrett (1927–1987) was one of American speculative fiction's most versatile practitioners, equally at home in science fiction, fantasy, mystery, and collaborative writing. His fiction frequently tests social systems by introducing disruptive ideas—technological, magical, or religious—and observing how individuals respond. His familiarity with mythic structures, occult themes, and popular genre conventions helped shape *Pagan Passions*, while the cultural climate of the 1950s, marked by anxiety about conformity and changing sexual morality, provided an especially fertile context for its concerns. Readers interested in adventurous mid-century science fiction with philosophical and erotic undertones will find *Pagan Passions* rewarding. It is particularly suited to those who value genre fiction as cultural criticism, and to anyone curious about how myth and desire can unsettle supposedly stable civilizations.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★ 3.3 (195)
Includes Goodreads, Amazon
GenreFantasy, Humor
Length5 hrs 27 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 14, 2018
LanguageEnglish
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