Some people might feel that The Sparrow might have deserved a Hugo nomination, and surely it was a book many people were talking about. I hate it—it sets up a situation that eventually makes no emotional sense, and I felt I’d been conned into caring about something that’s just stupid. I don’t mean science errors; I mean people are not like that and do not act in ways like that. The Sparrow requires hundreds of people to behave in ways that only psychopaths behave. It’s just barely plausible that one person could find a victim of severe abuse and assume this is a degenerate who should be blamed
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