When Stars Are Scattered by Spencer Ellsworth
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I do love me some Tor Stories on Thursday.
I love when SciFi makes you think, or makes you work for your story. As someone who isn’t Muslim, having the main characters, though technically not the protagonist, because he is an atheist, be Muslim, gives me, at least the “other” that so often happens in well written speculative fiction.
The bad guys, the other, are not the kite creatures, that are native to the land, but the Christian settlers that have also taken up living on this planet, and are only just tolerating how the Muslim are treating these beings that they see as pests, and the Muslims see as fellow beings.
Interesting story, well written.
Apparently the name of the short story is taken from the Koran.
Read it online at their site.