Mirror Image

If an alien life form can adapt to human shape and emotions, and actually believe itself to be human, does that make it a man? That was one of the problems confronting the colonists on Marilyn when they discovered the shape shifting amorphs. At first the creatures were used simply as a labour force then an experiment produced a super-morph and a rebellion. And out of that came something of galaxy shaking implications – an amorph female gave birth to a baby that would think no evil – a new Messiah? Cover by Jim Burns