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'The story is told from the point of view of a bisexual spaceship which spawns a "virgin" to bring the messiah to a warring humanity exemplified by twin tyrants who struggle for supremacy in a baroque setting'. Source: 'Forms of Power in Recent Australian Science Fiction'.
'The Jesuit starship St. Ignatius Loyola, in exile from post-religion High Earth, finds a deserted city on a distant world. Have its people gone in search of their Redeemer?'
