Sparrow The Sparrow, Book 1, (Paperback)

from JanetinLondon

I liked this book a lot. It's the story of a mission to meet the first alien civilisation whose signals have been received on Earth - a classic "first contact" story, set in the slightly dystopian ...

from msf59

If you had a chance to travel to another planet, to visit a distant civilization, with very little chance of returning, would you do it? In the year 2019, a small group of people are given just thi...

from EmScape

When a friend of mine told me I had to read this book, she prefaced it with "I know you don't like religion, but you do like SciFi and it's really, really good." So, I went ahead and read it and, y...

from TadAD

I thought this was good science fiction, not landing among the pantheon of the Greats, but worth reading. The entire story centers around a Jesuit mission to be the first to contact the inhabitants...

from brenzi

"The Jesuit scientists went to learn, not proselytize. They went so that they might come to know and love God's other children. They went for the reason Jesuits have always gone to the farthest fro...