Cruel Miracles (The Maps in a Mirror Series)
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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.<br/>Mortal GodsIn our mortality lies our greatness.<br/>Saving GraceA story of TV faith healers and those who follow them.<br/>Eye for EyeAn 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.<br/>St. Amy's TaleA family destroys all technology.<br/>KingsmeatWhen flesh-eating aliens take over a human colony world, one human forestalls total doom by feeding them non-essential bits of his fellow colonists.<br/>HolyA seemingly pointless mission to bring an offering to another culture's shrine takes on unexpected meaning.<br/>"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
Cruel Miracles (The Maps in a Mirror Series) Orson Scott Card
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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.<br/>Mortal GodsIn our mortality lies our greatness.<br/>Saving GraceA story of TV faith healers and those who follow them.<br/>Eye for EyeAn 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.<br/>St. Amy's TaleA family destroys all technology.<br/>KingsmeatWhen flesh-eating aliens take over a human colony world, one human forestalls total doom by feeding them non-essential bits of his fellow colonists.<br/>HolyA seemingly pointless mission to bring an offering to another culture's shrine takes on unexpected meaning.<br/>"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