Saturday Night Linkblogging
Reading Maria Doria Russel's The Sparrow. So far I really, really like it. Half is set in 2019, before and during a Jesuit mission to an alien planet, and half is set in 2060, after the return of its sole survivor. Besides apintrix and canis_m, my ex-Catholic atheist housemate Marie also recommended this book.( Read more... )
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The situation seems to be gearing up toward a melodramatics-in-space plot similar to 3010:A Space Odyssey's or Please Save My Earth's.
Hm, I don't remember the melodrama really getting under way though. I seem to recall it getting resolved pretty quickly. Although of course, I remember the parts after they arrive on Rakhat more than the spaceship journey itself. The sequel is also very good, I thought, but for different reasons than the first.
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