The Ashes of His Fathers
2011
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4.67
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24
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The year is 2999, and Mariposa Hernandez's job as a customs agent for Earth gets complicated when Shear-jashub Cooper arrives from a distant colony planet carrying the ashes of the colony founders. His religious beliefs mandate that the founders be returned to Earth before the year 3000, but there's a his planet declared war on Earth hundreds of years ago, and technically that war isn't over—even though nobody on either side ever fired a shot."The Ashes of His Fathers" is a short story that was originally published in Analog Science Fiction & Fact, May 2008.Eric James Stone is a Nebula Award nominee and a Writers of the Future Contest winner. He is the author of over two dozen stories that have been published in venues such as Year's Best SF, Analog, and Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show.
Avg Rating
4.67
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