Review: Thoroughly enjoyable
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 28, 2011
Often, you will find in Science Fiction stories that attempt to change the readers' mind about some profound thing, such as religion, but often those stories will be written by people not of that community.This story is not like that.Written by a Mormon about a Mormon, it makes no apologies about being a story about a Mormon, and therein lies its strength. It is not a story in which a Mormon loses faith or sees the light. It's a story in which the characters stay true to themselves. It's a story about the amusing consequences of mission work (in space, with really, really cool aliens). If you want, you can draw some amusing parellels with missionary work by early Europeans, but that's not mandatory.It's a great story about a world and a religion about which I, not being religious at all, know very little. I thoroughly enjoyed it.