The Newcomer Quotes

“Countless believers have begged me to intercede on their behalf while I sleep on in ignorance. ​So many wasted prayers, thrown away like wishes down a well.”
― Alasdair C. Shaw, The Newcomer: Twelve Science Fiction Short Stories

“time. Damn God for leaving him on this forsaken world! What kind of loving Father would do that to His most faithful servant? Try as he might, Jacob began to believe less in that love and more in the notion that God was nothing more than a cruel, capricious bastard.”
― Alasdair C. Shaw, The Newcomer: Twelve Science Fiction Short Stories