Author: Greg Egan
Year: 1998
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Science fiction, Award winners, Short Stories
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9780575086524
9780575086548
0575086521
0575086548 |
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From the publisher (source: The Internet Book List):
On a distant planet isolated from Earth since its colonization 20,000 years ago, a young boy's religious conviction is put to the test in a bound-and-weighted baptism of endurance beneath the waves of the ocean. He experiences a divine euphoria at the moment his breath gives out, and when he's brought back to the surface, the love of Beatrice, Daughter of God, flows through him with born-again contentedness. Years later as a biology student at the University, his conviction is thrown into turmoil when his own study of aquatic zooytes is used to challenge the source of his beliefs.
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