"Gather"
| Title | "Gather" |
| Year for Search | 2008 |
| Authors | Rowe, Christopher(b. 1969) |
| Secondary Authors | Datlow, Ellen |
| Secondary Title | The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Sixteen Original Works by Speculative Fiction's Finest Voices |
| Pagination | 78-90 with an editor's note on 77 |
| Date Published | 2008 |
| Publisher | Ballantine Books |
| Place Published | New York |
| Keywords | Male author, US author |
| Annotation | Religious dystopia in which God lives on one side of a river and the people live on the other. Only clergy are allowed to go to God’s side of the river where the only fertile soil is found. It is unclear just who or what God is, but when the protagonist, Gather, and a friend find an image of God, the decide to return it to God’s side. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. in his Telling the Map: Stories Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2017), 83-95. |
| Holding Institutions | Merril |
| Author Note | (b. 1969) |
| Full Text | 2008 Rowe, Christopher (b. 1969). “Gather.” The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Sixteen Original Works by Speculative Fiction’s Finest Voices. Ed. Ellen Datlow (New York: Ballantine Books, 2008), 78-90 with an editor’s note on 77. Rpt. in his Telling the Map: Stories Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2017), 83-95. Merril Religious dystopia in which God lives on one side of a river and the people live on the other. Only clergy are allowed to go to God’s side of the river where the only fertile soil is found. It is unclear just who or what God is, but when the protagonist, Gather, and a friend find an image of God, the decide to return it to God’s side. |
