by keturn
Type: fiction
Status: to read
Author: Mary Doria Russell
Tags: via_tornadogrrrl
2008-01-06
book
The Sparrow
After music broadcast from another planet is detected, the Jesuits secretly send a mission to make contact. Although, the plot involves interplanetary travel and alien life forms this is not really sci-fi. It is a book about faith and moral courage. It is beautifully realized and written. Its sequel, "Children of God", is equally good -- and, more importantly, necessary to full appreciation of "The Sparrow."
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by scuba_sm
Type: fiction
Status: liked
Authors: Wilbur Smith Mary Doria Russell Russell Mary Doria
Tags: scifi
Description: A very interesting book about interplanetary missionaries, though that barely scrapes the surface...
2006-11-13
by snailreader
Type: fiction
Status: I recommend
Authors: Russell Mary Doria
Description: Jesuit and his friends travel to distant planet when they learn there is life . Moral dilemmas...
2006-01-13
by jaie
Type: fiction
Status: to read
Authors: Wilbur Smith Mary Doria Russell
Tags: to.be.read metafilter.recommendation
2006-01-13
by zvilikestv
Type: fiction
Status: to read
Authors: Wilbur Smith Mary Doria Russell
Tags: rec-browse lib-marina
Description: read about this somewhere, it's supposed to have some interesting religious deal?
2006-01-11
by sraffert
Type: fiction
Status: favorite
Author: Mary Doria Russell
Description: After music broadcast from another planet is detected, the Jesuits secretly send a mission...
2005-09-19
by brandy
Type: fiction
Status: I recommend
Authors: Wilbur Smith Mary Doria Russell
Tags: scifi
2005-09-03