In the Face of My Enemy
Book 1 of Kim Ryan
10 of 1984 Locus Award for Best Novella Library - Science Fiction and Fantasy Novella Science Fiction _isfdb shortfiction
Publisher: Davis Publications
Published: Apr 2, 1983
Magazine:
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, April 1983
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Description:
HE WAS BORN BEFORE MAN COULD MEASURE TIME--HE WILL LEAD US ALL TO THE STARS. Eighteen thousand years ago a priest ascended a high place, there to hold converse with his gods. That night the gods chose to bless him with their physical reality. Alas, mortal flesh cannot bear the presence of godhead, and so he died. And was reborn. But ever after he was not as other men. He could change his form at will, his wounds healed instantly. . . and he did not age. As millennia passed he grew very wise, and came at last to understand. His destiny lay not among men, but among the stars.