Echo of Worlds (Pandominion, #2)

by M.R. Carey

“You were a person who’d had to do questionable things to survive. The people who’ve never needed to make those choices don’t get to judge the people who did.”

engineering buildings. The AI told me to grab as many as I thought I could carry and bring them along. Do you know who Mary is?” “It’s a fairly common name in my world,” Essien said. “Why?” “Rupshe said the ball bearings would give us a Hail Mary play, if we needed one.” “Oh. Well that Mary is the mother of God. People pray to her when they’re in a desperate situation and out of other options.” Moon smiled without amusement. “Shit. Can’t imagine how that could apply to us.”

All these selves were under my protection now, and no god ever invented could have been more jealous of his covenant.