The Sparrow (Audiobook)

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 this opportunity. Led and financed by the Jesuits, this party boards an asteroid and propels into space...

from -Cee-

OK... call me strange/weird/whacked/all of the above! I did not think this book was "creepy". It was beautiful, sad, tragic and tender. This is not just about the mere discovery of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. It turns out to be a mirror held up to our own human race struggling wit...

from streamsong

The year is 2019 when a listening telescope picks up an alien radio transmission of astonishingly beautiful singing. While the UN debates, things fall into place quickly for a Jesuit expedition of linguists and scholars anxious to meet God's other children. The timeline bounces back and forth bet...

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 but not entirely unfamiliar near future. Like all good first contact stories, it not only tells us a...

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 of a planet in the Alpha Centauri system. The author deliberately draws upon the parallels with the...