And if you're willing to go there with an emotionally taxing but, IMO, completely amazing book, Mary Doria Russell's The Sparrow and its sequel Children of God are some fantastic looks at what could happen if we of Earth were to encounter intelligent extraterrestrial life in the near future, with bonus points for building upon the idea of historical missionary work to other continents that might as well have been other worlds given the travel abilities of the day. Basically I just want to plug The Sparrow, which I read every year and get something different from every time.
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Date: 2009-03-06 06:00 am (UTC)For some LeGuin, maybe The Telling?
And if you're willing to go there with an emotionally taxing but, IMO, completely amazing book, Mary Doria Russell's The Sparrow and its sequel Children of God are some fantastic looks at what could happen if we of Earth were to encounter intelligent extraterrestrial life in the near future, with bonus points for building upon the idea of historical missionary work to other continents that might as well have been other worlds given the travel abilities of the day. Basically I just want to plug The Sparrow, which I read every year and get something different from every time.