The Electronic Prophet

REVEREND SAM: THE TECHNOLOGY OF SALVATION. This is the promise of Sam brainchild of George Henderson. George a religious speechwriter with little faith in anything except his own cynicism is facing pecuniary ruin due to his association with evangelical libertines. He divines an absurdity of an idea: a robot preacher who would be faultless. All that would have to be supplied would be prerecorded sermons written by George for a nominal fee of course.</p><p>With the support of his financier cousin Eric and the animatronics genius of Louis O’Cain George sets his plan in motion. Sam’s speeches soon become both popular and inflammatory. Everyone from a suspicious government to spurned business partners begin pressing from the shadows leaving George walking a fine line between fortune and sedition.</p>