SF Read of the Week

The scientists broke many laws, both civil and ethical, in their work. The saints' eggs they transplanted into any woman who volunteered, but each one of the Jesus eggs was transplanted into an amenable virgin. Most of the latter were nuns, again indicating some complicity with the old churches, although each church denied any knowledge of the project.

If you're not one of the readers who checks out my Read of the Week feature on a regular basis, I urge you to change your ways, if just for a week. Dru Pagliassotti's "Joseph's Plaint" over at Ideomancer is one of the best SF stories I've read this year. Not only that, but if you don't have a lot of time to sit down and read, it's quite short (so you don't have any excuse not to read it).