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 is situated our greatness.

Keeping GraceA story of TV faith healers and those who adhere to them.

Vision for EyeAn abused child has the gift of creating illness and death in those he is angry with. Winner of the Hugo Prize for Greatest Novella in 1988.

St. Amy’s TaleA family destroys all technology.

KingsmeatWhen flesh-eating aliens take over a human colony globe, one human forestalls total doom by feeding them nonessential bits of his fellow colonists.

HolyA seemingly pointless objective to bring an offering to another culture’s shrine assumes unexpected meaning.

“I believe that speculative fiction-science fiction in particular-is the final American refuge of religious literature. Real religious literature, I think, explores the type of the universe and discovers the reason behind it.”-Orson Scott Credit card, from his introduction