title: The Son of Man: Vision and Interpretation
author:  Chrys C. Caragounis 
description: Chrys C. Caragounis, Born 1940; B.D. Honours at London University; Th.D. at Uppsala University; Professor in New Testament Exegesis at Lund University, Sweden.
zlib_text: FEAR THAT MAN
      
  by
  Dean Koontz
  
  ONE: PURPOSE
      
  And ye shall seek a new order of things​
  
      
  I
      
      When he woke from a featureless dream of silver, there was nothing but endless blackness on three
  sides, a blackness so intense that it almost coughed out a breath and nearly moved. And when he
  woke, he did not know who he was.
      The control console-splashed with sixteen luminous dials, scopes, a dozen toggle switches and half
  a hundred varicolored buttons-told him that this thing under and behind him was a spaceship. That, at
  least, explained the darkness through the viewplate that wrapped around the other three sides of the
  guidance nipple. And his misty reflection on the thick plastiglass told him that he was a man, for he
  had the eyes of a man (blue), the face of a man (severe, but handsome, topped by a tangle of coal
  dusted hair). But these things were generals. When he tried to concentrate on specifics, there were no
  answers.
      Who was he?
      The dials only wavered 