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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description: It has been six years since the demise of Thomas Madison and his Glory of God church. His monolithic legacy, an 8-mile-high cross circling the earth in low orbit, has been approved by the government to be used for an experiment in quantum physics.

eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Asimov's, 1989
Fictionwise Release Date: February 2001

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Words: 7733
Reading time: 22-30 min.
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We drew steadily closer to the main dock. The detailed plans of the Glory Of God had been a big secret, but we knew the general layout. The long arm of the cross was eight kilometers long, and the short arm five kilometers. However, the living quarters were all contained in a sphere about three hundred meters in diameter on the far side of the cross, and the Christ-figure itself was no more than a thin translucent skin stretched over a metal frame of girders. The purpose of the Glory Of God had been effect. Thomas Madison had planned the whole system with that in mind. GOG moved in sun-synchronous polar orbit, roughly eight hundred kilometers high, which meant that the cross was visible at nine-thirty every evening (prime time, if you want to be cynical) from almost everywhere on Earth. Seen from the surface, GOG was a shining emblem in the sky, bigger than the full Moon. As its designer had intended, the sight was breathtaking.

But Vilfredo Germani was a theoretical physicist, not a religious leader. He was interested in other uses of GOG, and visual effects were of no interest to him. As the Shuttle performed its final closing he became more intense and preoccupied. The funding foundations and government grant committees knew Germani as a gregarious, affable man, the most lucid and persuasive salesman for his ideas that could be imagined. They would not have recognized the twitchy, dark-faced fanatic who peered anxiously at the forward screen.