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The Chaplain's Legacy (2013)

by Brad R. Torgersen(Favorite Author)

3.02 of 5 Votes: 5

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English

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Science Fiction

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Analog Science Fiction & Fact

review 1: Like most people who've written reviews about this story, I read it because it was nominated for a Hugo Award for best novella in 2014. I guess a lot of people liked the old-fashioned style and topics in the story. It could have come out forty years ago and not felt out of place. Especially with the odd lecture about sex and being in love first in the middle, it was really weird and antiquated, especially for a sci-fi story taking place far in the future. I don't know anything about this author but it felt like he had an agenda. And of course it was the woman who got sick and needed help, I just hate that, what was the point? It's not a sprained ankle but it might as well have been. There was just nothing original or terribly exciting about most of the story, I kind of lik... moreed the religious struggle the main character faced. "Disbelieving and being openly scornful of belief are not the same thing. I don’t begrudge those with faith. In fact, I admire it". I've frequently felt that way myself. I encourage and support my friends who have faith, despite my doubts, and often envy them the comfort it brings. But really, in the very long story, the only original part was the struggle the queen went through without the disc carriage all of the mantes used for centuries for movement, nutrition and much more. Near the end there is a bit of a revelation about it that shows that maybe the mantes and humans aren't as different as they'd always seemed. It guess the story was nice. A perfectly nice story. I don't know why it was the one that was singled out to be nominated for a Hugo Award.
review 2: The novella "The Chaplain's Legacy," by Brad R. Torgersen (Analog) has been nominated for the 2014 Hugo Award.In this fast-moving space opera, the fate of humanity rests on one man, a military chaplain's assistant. Having once accomplished a truce between humans and the insect-like Mantis species, he is called upon again when it appears things are heating up. The peace talks fail utterly, as someone gets trigger happy and the chaplain and the Queen Mother Mantis end up on a lifeboat to a nearby planet. As in "Enemy Mine," the hardships of survival give them the chance to get much better acquainted.An awful lot of sentence fragments though. And typos. Hope the version in Analog was cleaner. less

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