Ann Wilson 37 min read

On Narvon III in 2277, it's the Archbishop who pushes the panic button, appealing to the Emperor against something turning the system's best people into 'bloodsucking servants of the Devil.'

Ann Wilson's 1992 Terran Empire story is a brisk military space opera of an Evaluation Team on a strange case. Engaging, wry fan-tradition SF. Read it for a genial galactic-empire adventure where a wisecracking Marine captain's team must uncover what's really behind a world's outbreak of 'demonic' possession.

In its time

Published in 1992, during the 1990s, the web age dawns.

Reading it

37 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).