Cruel Miracles Tales of Death, Hope, and Holiness

Orson Scott Card, Grover Gardner, John Rubinstein, Stefan Rudnicki, others

eAudio - 2009

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 GodsIn our mortality lies our greatness.Saving GraceA story of TV faith healers and those who follow them.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.St. Amy's TaleA family destroys all technology.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.HolyA 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...

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Published
Blackstone Publishing
Language
English
Main Authors
Orson Scott Card, Grover Gardner, John Rubinstein, Stefan Rudnicki, others
Online Access
OverDrive Resource Page
Format
MP3 audiobook, OverDrive Listen audiobook
MP3 audiobook
File Size194 GB
Parts7
ISBN9781481553742
Release Date12/31/2009
OverDrive Listen audiobook
File Size193 GB
ISBN9781481553742
Release Date12/31/2009