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I so enjoyed this book. It was totally engaging and required a great deal of thinking. It will need even more reflection before I can move on to its sequel.
I generally don't like science fiction, but what we have here is something far beyond that. What will it be like when humans actually understand that they are receiving communication from another planet? What if that communication is music? What if your discovery-journey was led by a group of Jesuits who saw this outreach as another frontier ...more
I generally don't like science fiction, but what we have here is something far beyond that. What will it be like when humans actually understand that they are receiving communication from another planet? What if that communication is music? What if your discovery-journey was led by a group of Jesuits who saw this outreach as another frontier ...more

Fabulous combination of sci-fi and theology. Left me wanting me -- fortunately, I discovered the sequel, "Children of God"!
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