Ari Brill's "Good Doctrine" (flash fiction, humor, free)
Human religious missionaries (apparently Christian) are on a crusade, "purifying" other sentient species in the galaxy. Now the turn has come, of their reward at the hand of an angel...
See also.
- Ray Bradbury's "The Fire Baloons": Human Christian missionaries have landed on Mars, to convert what remains of the Martians. Only the Martians have a surprise for them...
- Harry Harrison's "The Streets of Ashkelon": A human missionary (I think Christian, but I don't recall correctly) has landed on an alien world to convert them, only the situation is a bit complicated because a human religious skeptic already lives there. So confused natives have designed an experiment to test the missionary's word...
Fact sheet.
First published: 365tomorrows, 18 June 2009.Rating: B.
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Related: Religious fiction.
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