Okay, so, there's more military stuff and there are insectoid aliens who the human race has made peace with after a war. And according to the military assistant chaplain, the aliens are "biologically incapable of feeling what you and I might call faith." I want to stop reading because I can see where this is going and, again, I'm not its target audience, but because it's a Hugo finalist and I'm a voter I will soldier on. ...And soldier on I did. I felt like I was being preached at the entire time I was reading via the Padre speaking to his companions. There was a lady who was killed to inspire others to do... something, I'm not sure what, but she was fridged nonetheless. There was some sex talk about "not all men" and how aliens have sex, and reference to "our women" when the females in question were no such thing. And at the end the Padre and an alien are going back to his chapel to be illuminated or something like that. I did not like it at all.
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