"Another Word for Map Is Faith"

Title"Another Word for Map Is Faith"
Year for Search2006
AuthorsRowe, Christopher(b. 1969)
Secondary TitleThe Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
Volume / Edition111.2 (653)
Pagination42-55
Date PublishedAugust 2006
ISSN Number00024-984X
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

Religious dystopia in which a completely controlling Christian denomination works to restore the landscape to the version that they see as ordained by Christ based on old maps. In the story, they demolish a dam and destroy a town to get rid of a lake that is not on their map.

Additional Publishers

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 1. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2006), 93-103; and in his Telling the Map: Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2017), 23-37.

Holding Institutions

Merril, PU

Author Note

(b. 1969)

Full Text

2006 Rowe, Christopher (b. 1969). “Another Word for Map Is Faith.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 111.2 (653) (August 2006): 42-55. Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 1. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2006), 93-103; and in his Telling the Map: Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2017), 23-37. Merril, PU

Religious dystopia in which a completely controlling Christian denomination works to restore the landscape to the version that they see as ordained by Christ based on old maps. In the story, they demolish a dam and destroy a town to get rid of a lake that is not on their map.