Enlightenment - Smith Douglas
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Aurora Award FinalistThink of human emotion as a geography, with
peaks of pleasure and valleys of pain. Imagine a drug that flips
the valleys and makes them peaks, too. You react now to an event
based not on the pleasure or pain it brings, but solely on the
intensity of the emotion created. Pain brings pleasure, grief gives
joy, horror renders ecstasy. Now give this drug to a soldier. Tell
them to kill. Not in the historically acceptable murder of war, but
in a systematic corporate strategy--of xenocide. They will kill.
And they will revel in it.Welcome to the world of Scream.Jarrod is
a Scream-addicted soldier forced to take part in the destruction of
entire races. But when his unit encounters the Be’nan, aliens who
hold the secret to true enlightenment, no one is prepared for the
result."…reaches far past the muddled mediocrity of swashbuckling
tales forgotten before the page is turned to the next story. I
enjoyed the alien anthropology and the details are tremendous…in
this tale of tremendous sacrifice" —Tangent Online"My favourite of
the selection was 'Enlightenment' by Douglas Smith. A strange story
indeed about Earth people engaged in strip-mining planets and
relocating indigenous populations. ... The end is horrific in many
respects but it's also thought-provoking." —SF Crowsnest
Reviews"…[tells of] a spiritual undertaking by a member of a brutal
planetary occupation force who "goes native" in which Douglas Smith
provides a riff on Ray Bradbury's famous rationale of space travel:
for Man to find God in the cosmos. A science fictional depiction of
the mistreatment of "aliens" to subvertly criticize the atrocities
of imperialist colonization." —SF Site"... unexpected twists and a
superb ending; the story is as powerful as any in the
[Chimerascope] collection (A++)" —Fantasy Book Critic"Douglas
Smith…succeeds in evoking an alien society with mythic/religious
overtones in his moving tale ‘Enlightenment’." —New Hope
International Review Online"Another strong story, looking at
humanity's treatment of indigenous people." —Best SF"...oppressed
inhabitants of distant worlds making the ultimate sacrifice in
order to bring mankind back to the realisation of what right and
wrong truly mean." —Whispers of Wickedness reviews"Nicely judged
depictions of alien customs…" —SF Site"...was my favourite of the
issue. ‘Enlightenment’ went exactly where I expected it to, but
that was where I wanted it to go--I was there for the ride"
"Stories [were] great, particularly ‘Enlightenment.’ [I] was just
engrossed in the whole thing...and applaud it thoroughly!" "…just
blew me away…I was taken away by the lovely prose." "...provoked
some really interesting ideas…" "…mind-blowing…" —InterZone readers
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