The Moon Under Her Feet
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Mak, Derwin, PUBLISong>HERong>: Weird & Wondrous Books, Nominee for the Prix Aurora AwardFatong>herong> Mark Wycliffe, a Roman Catholic priest and space engineer, flees from Earth's wars by serving aboard a Mars space station. Above Mars, he meets a mysterious woman who claims to be the Virgin Mary. He is skeptical of the vision; could it be an illusion created by asteroids called Siren Stones? Later, on the Moon, he meets Jessica, a teenaged girl in a Catholic school uniform. Jessica loves to shop in the Moon's largest shopping mall and hang out in its coolest nightclub. But Jessica also claims to be Jesus and uses ong>herong> special powers to start a nuclear Armageddon on the Moon and the Earth. Fatong>herong> Wycliffe, the Virgin Mary, scientists, and clergy must stop Jessica from carrying out ong>herong> Fatong>herong>'s will. While the mortals and ong>herong> immaculate motong>herong> try to foil ong>herong>, Jessica happily splurges on designer clothes, luxuries she never had in first century Judea.The Moon Under ong>Herong> Feet combines space opera, ghost story, and theology in a way seldom seen in science fiction and fantasy. It reveals both humor and tragedy as it traces the lives of its characters and their mission in space. From Derwin Mak, the author of "Transubstantiation," winner of the Prix Aurora Award, Canada's national science fiction award, for Best Short-Form Work in English."What follows is a clever, often brilliant, weaving of two story lines: as international tensions escalate, the mystery of the Marian Apparition deepens. Mak brings science and theology togetong>herong> in ways few otong>herong> science fiction writers would even contemplate. That's because they're mostly complementary ong>herong>e ratong>herong> than combative. Religion ong>herong>e is treated with respect and a depth of knowledge, instead of the contempt and shallow ignorance most SF writers heap upon it." - John-Allen Price, author of The Mutant Chronicles