What Gods Are These? — Jeffrey A. Carver

A lone survivor lurks in a ruined space station, facing certain death or capture. Earth has been saved from herself, her warring human children abducted by the Saviors to a forced promise of peace. Now they're coming for him. Can the human spirit survive in the face of the Saviors' overwhelming force? First appeared in Galileo magazine, by the Nebula-nominated author of Eternity's End and The Chaos Chronicles. 7000 words