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The God Engines
Cover of first edition (hardcover)
Author	John Scalzi
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction novella
Publisher	Subterranean Press
Publication date	2009
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	136
ISBN	978-1-59606-299-3

The God Engines is a 2009 science fiction/fantasy novella by John Scalzi.^[1]

Synopsis

The story takes place in a universe where space travel is accomplished by chaining intelligent, human-like creatures called gods to a spacecraft and torturing them to drive the ship. The people are ruled by an organization called the Bishopry Militant, who worship a powerful being. Captain Ean Tephe is completely faithful to the Bishopry, but his faith comes under test when he is assigned a secret mission in which his ship's god seems to have a keen interest.

Reception

The God Engines was a finalist for the 2009 Nebula Award for Best Novella^[2] and the 2010 Hugo Award for Best Novella.^[3] Publishers Weekly called it "ferociously inventive, painfully vivid, dispassionately bleak and dreadfully memorable", and compared it to a collaboration between J. G. Ballard and H.P. Lovecraft.^[4]

References

^ Scalzi, John (2009-12-01). The God Engines. Subterranean Press. ISBN 978-1-59606-299-3.
^ 2009 Nebula Award nominees, at Science Fiction Writers of America; retrieved March 26, 2018
^ 2010 Hugo Awards, at TheHugoAwards.org; retrieved March 26, 2018
^ The God Engines, reviewed at Publishers Weekly; published September 14, 2009; retrieved March 26, 2018

External links

First chapter of The God Engines, at Scalzi.com

v t e John Scalzi
Old Man's War series	Old Man's War (2005) The Ghost Brigades (2006) The Last Colony (2007) Zoe's Tale (2008) The Human Division (2013) The End of All Things (2015)
The Interdependency	The Collapsing Empire (2017) The Consuming Fire (2018) The Last Emperox (2020)
Lock In	Lock In (2014) Head On (2018)
The Dispatcher	The Dispatcher (2016) Murder by Other Means (2020) Travel by Bullet (2022)
Other novels	Agent to the Stars (2005) The Android's Dream (2006) Fuzzy Nation (2011) Redshirts (2012) The Kaiju Preservation Society (2022) Starter Villain (2023) When the Moon Hits Your Eye (2025)
Shorter works	The God Engines (2009) "The Shadow War of the Night Dragons" (2011) A Very Scalzi Christmas (2019)

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