The Sparrow

Name: The Sparrow
Author: Mary Doria Russell

by Mary Doria Russell

Jesuit astronomer joins ill-fated first contact mission to alien world discovering what truly went wrong

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Mary Doria Russell

Mary Doria Russell is an American science fiction author whose The Sparrow is one of the most celebrated first contact novels ever written, examining Jesuit missionaries encountering an alien civilization with devastating consequences. Children of God is its sequel. Her work melds rigorous scientific and theological thinking with profound human drama.

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