4705 78e6a997-d160-4342-8792-efe72c6d5674 Children of God Mary Doria Russell calibre (2.43.0) [http://calibre-ebook.com] 1998-03-02T00:00:00+00:00 SUMMARY: Mary Doria Russell's debut novel, The Sparrow, took us on a journey to a distant planet and into the center of the human soul. A critically acclaimed bestseller, The Sparrow was chosen as one of Entertainment Weekly's Ten Best Books of the Year, a finalist for the Book-of-the-Month Club's First Fiction Prize and the winner of the James M. Tiptree Memorial Award. Now, in Children of God, Russell further establishes herself as one of the most innovative, entertaining and philosophically provocative novelists writing today. The only member of the original mission to the planet Rakhat to return to Earth, Father Emilio Sandoz has barely begun to recover from his ordeal when the So-ciety of Jesus calls upon him for help in preparing for another mission to Alpha Centauri. Despite his objections and fear, he cannot escape his past or the future. Old friends, new discoveries and difficult questions await Emilio as he struggles for inner peace and understanding in a moral universe whose boundaries now extend beyond the solar system and whose future lies with children born in a faraway place. Strikingly original, richly plotted, replete with memorable characters and filled with humanity and humor, Chil-dren of God is an unforgettable and uplifting novel that is a potent successor to The Sparrow and a startlingly imaginative adventure for newcomers to Mary Doria Russell's special literary magic. Villard / Random House http://isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?6849 en Religion bsfa award for best novel finalist Novel hugo award for best novel finalist _isfdb Nominations Below Cutoff of 1998 Tiptree Award for Gender-bending SF 7 of 1999 Locus Award for Best SF Novel Preliminary Nominees of 1999 Nebula Award for Novel Fantasy Science Fiction & Fantasy Fiction Science Fiction Twenty-First Century Popular American Fiction Adventure Literature & Fiction - Genre Fiction Jesuits General Religious