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When Stars Are Scattered: A Tor.com Original

by Spencer Ellsworth

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Ahmed is a doctor working in a far flung outpost of humanity. His way was paid for by the leaders of his faith and his atheism is a guarded secret. His encounters with the "kite people" will cause him to doubt his whole worldview however when the aliens start dying and escalating tensions between religious extremists threatens to destroy the colony's peace. Spencer Ellsworth's WHEN STARS ARE SCATTERED is a moving story about alien contact, religious intolerance, and the redemptive power of the divine channeled through the spirit. Whether that spirit is human or alien. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.… (more)
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Fantastic novelette, one that leaped right onto my awards shortlist. This is sci-fi at its best as it examines the human condition on an alien world where Muslim and Christian settlers contend with native beings called kites who have converted to Islam. And the kites are dying. There are suspicions that the illness is human-caused. The protagonist is an atheist Muslim doctor--what a wonderful perspective to follow!--who finds himself dropped into an escalating religious conflict--and perhaps a genocide. Very thought-provoking and deep stuff. ( )
  ladycato | Nov 18, 2017 |
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Ahmed is a doctor working in a far flung outpost of humanity. His way was paid for by the leaders of his faith and his atheism is a guarded secret. His encounters with the "kite people" will cause him to doubt his whole worldview however when the aliens start dying and escalating tensions between religious extremists threatens to destroy the colony's peace. Spencer Ellsworth's WHEN STARS ARE SCATTERED is a moving story about alien contact, religious intolerance, and the redemptive power of the divine channeled through the spirit. Whether that spirit is human or alien. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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