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The Sparrow
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March 24, 2015
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March 24, 2015

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Brian
Jul 12, 2018 rated it really liked it
If we ever encounter life on another world, it will change everything, both for us and for them. This is one story about how that could happen, and how vast gulfs in understanding can transform those who experience it. Who benefits? Who is harmed? How do we communicate? How do we survive? What mistakes would we make without realizing it? Those questions and others are handled here through the lens of a religious mission to an alien world, and in a way that is both beautiful and harrowingly grote ...more
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