She felt whole and complete in her happiness, here in front of the First, with his essence waving over her, his spirit beaming through her body. She now focused on this happy intensity radiating from the First, felt it quaver and change, rippling various tides of refined pleasure in and out of her soul, the pleasure always transmuting, always moving, never sustained on any single level or sense for very long before it evolved into an even finer sensation. She felt completed. This was the aspiration of all beings, she knew, to attain the presence of the First. The pleasure flowed so keenly, she felt her own feet now cease; she really had no desire to move her body at all, feeling content to stand still in this place for eternity.

                                                                                     -- Zoe Fairchild

Summary

A small group attempts to physically kill God, incited by the discovery that such a divine murder might free the human race from all suffering. Their quest takes them through the vanished Atlantic Ocean, down into the interior of the planet, then finally up into space where they learn God himself precipitated their murder attempt.

Divine Murder addresses certain other metaphysical topics. Why is there pain? Is there a God? And if there is indeed a God, could he possibly, plausibly, be murdered? Maybe that last one is a significant head-scratcher, but it is indeed an agnostic’s epiphany . . . for if he could indeed be physically murdered, then he certainly must exist.

But just who would want to murder God, anyway? Surely such a deed has only the foulest of motives. Or is there an acceptable reason for humanity to do in the Creator and then stumble off on our own into another era? After all, he has been murdering us for millions of years . . . perhaps the real divine murder.