Janis Ian
Bio: Born April 7, 1951, Janis Ian burst on the music scene at age 15 with her controversial saga of interracial love, "Society's Child." Self-penned and arranged, it topped the charts and created a storm of discussion that featured Ian on The Tonight Show and in Life, Look, Time and Newsweek. Her debut album, 1967's Janis Ian, garnered her the first of her nine Grammy nominations to date. Since then, there have been 17 albums, some as close as 9 months apart, some as far apart as 10 years. Janis was a featured columnist for The Advocate for five years, and has been a regular columnist for them since the magazine's inception. She contributes to several other magazines as well, including a monthly column for "Performing Songwriter". She co-wrote the short fiction story "Water-skiing down the Styx", with Mike Resnick (featured here at Fictionwise).
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Carter has been exiled from his diocese on Earth to minister among the heathen of Low Port. Left to his own devices, he discovers more than he'd dreamed possible, and finally understands what it is to be truly human. "...he loved her fecundity, the womanly wealth that thrived on and gave nourishment to the holy seed within her, and spewed Him forth in a river of blood from that mystical slit between dung and urine. Blood of the lamb, the same lamb that stretched in an unbroken line from Abraham'... 
