This fourth volume in Orson Scott Card's five-book anthology of short stories features tales with religious themes, exploring the mysteries of ritual, sacrifice, faith, and death.
* Mortal Gods In our mortality lies our greatness.
* *Saving Grace A story of TV faith healers and those who follow them.
* Eye for Eye An abused child has the gift of creating illness and death in those he is angry with. Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novella in 1988.
* *St. Amy's Tale A family destroys all technology.
* Kingsmeat When flesh-eating aliens take over a human colony world, one human forestalls total doom by feeding them non-essential bits of his fellow colonists.
* *Holy A seemingly pointless mission to bring an offering to another culture's shrine takes on unexpected meaning.
"I believe that speculative fiction-science fiction in particular-is the last American refuge of religious literature. Real religious literature, I think, explores the nature of the universe and discovers the purpose behind it."-Orson Scott Card, from his introduction
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This fourth volume in Orson Scott Card's five-book anthology of short stories features tales with religious themes, exploring the mysteries of ritual, sacrifice, faith, and death. * Mortal Gods
In our mortality lies our greatness. * *Saving Grace
A story of TV faith healers and those who follow them. * Eye for Eye
An abused child has the gift of creating illness and death in those he is angry with. Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novella in 1988. * *St. Amy's Tale
A family destroys all technology. * Kingsmeat
When flesh-eating aliens take over a human colony world, one human forestalls total doom by feeding them non-essential bits of his fellow colonists. * *Holy
A seemingly pointless mission to bring an offering to another culture's shrine takes on unexpected meaning. "I believe that speculative fiction-science fiction in particular-is the last American refuge of religious literature. Real religious literature, I think, explores the nature of the universe and discovers the purpose behind it."-Orson Scott Card, from his introduction *