This page is devoted to links to fiction, especially mythopoeic fiction, written by Robert G. Brown. It includes both book websites and short stories that can be read for free online.
The Book of Lilith is a mythopoeic work, a fantasy, a rewriting of the book of Genesis the way it ought to have been -- with women on top! It begins with bitterly sharp black humor in the framing "preface", in which the author recounts in a stuffy and academic tone a bizarre and outrageous story about the discovery of "lost scrolls" in war-torn Iraq. In spite of its obviously fictional character, it is nevertheless well enough told to have provoked many readers to enquire of the author: "So, do you have the real scrolls?"
The story itself recounts the autobiography of Lilith, the first person given a soul by God, as she embarks on a quest to pass on God's Soul to a soulless world while seeking to understand the mystery of suffering and death. Told with a light-hearted, often funny touch, The Book of Lilith is a work that will both entertain you and yet make you think hard about the nature of God, about sexual equality, about the fragility and yet endurance of love.