The Word Reclaimed

By Steve Rzasa

Description:

Baden picked up the wrong book
In the far future, the civilized worlds have finally been freed of the curse of religion. Tolerance now rules the five colonies.
Thanks to the secret police, no one has been bothered by so much as a hymn in two generations—much less a Torah, Koran, or that most dangerous of books, a Bible.
Baden is a young man with an attitude. He spends his spare time salvaging wrecks in deep space, claiming for himself whatever the pirates leave behind.
One day, Baden finds a book. A strange and very old book, preserved carefully against the ravages of deep space. Thinking he’ll become rich if only for the value of the paper, he takes it. He counts himself lucky beyond all imagining.
Until it begins talking to him.
Amidst an interstellar war that threatens to overthrow the monarchy and drive great families to oblivion, Baden must evade the secret police and their attempts to get that book.
Baden never had much use for religion. But, it seems, one has use of him.

Why the author wrote this book:

What would you do with a Bible if it were the last one in the galaxy, and it were illegal? This story begins the adventure to answer that question.