10,000 words. A grimly funny story of religious war. A hundred and fifty years in the future, fanatical Evangelical Christians seek to leave the solar system to spread their faith on new worlds. Militant atheists are fearful of how any extra-terrestrials might react to a creed that has recently caused a catastrophic nuclear war here on Earth, so they set up laser-wielding bases on the outer planets. From these bases, the outgoing missionaries are murdered without mercy. Then, alone on the black and icy waste of Pluto, Nigel one of the grotesque misfits employed to operate the lasers, begins to believe that he is being watched. But there isn't another human being for millions of miles...
10,000 words. A grimly funny story of religious war. A hundred and fifty years in the future, fanatical Evangelical Christians seek to leave the solar system to spread their faith on new worlds. Militant atheists are fearful of how any extra-terrestrials might react to a creed that has recently caused a catastrophic nuclear war here on Earth, so they set up laser-wielding bases on the outer planets. From these bases, the outgoing missionaries are murdered without mercy. Then, alone on the black and icy waste of Pluto, Nigel one of the grotesque misfits employed to operate the lasers, begins to believe that he is being watched. But there isn't another human being for millions of miles...