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Name: The Sparrow

Author: Mary Doria Russell
Year: 1996
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Popularity: 8.4
Genres/categories: Science fiction, Award winners, Fantasy, Religion

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9780552997775
9780679451501
0552997773
0679451501
Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke award for best Sci-Fi novel first published in the UK in 1998.
Winner of the BSFA award for Best Novel in 1997.
Winner of the James Tiptree Jr. award in 1996.
Winner of the Puddly award for Science Fiction in 2001.
Winner of the British Science Fiction Association Award for Novel in 1997.
Winner of the Kurd Lasswitz Prize for Foreign Novel in 2001.

In 2019, humanity finally finds proof of extraterrestrial life when a listening post in Puerto Rico picks up exquisite singing from a planet that will come to be known as Rakhat. While United Nations diplomats endlessly debate a possible first contact mission, the Society of Jesus quietly organizes an eight-person scientific expedition of its own. What the Jesuits find is a world so beyond comprehension that it will lead them to question what it means to be "human".

This book is part of the "The Sparrow" series.
Here are some other books from this series:
Children of God
First published 1998
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