In 2019, humanity finally finds proof of extraterrestrial life when a listening post in Puerto Rico picks up exquisite singing from a planet that will come to be known as Rakhat. While United Nations diplomats endlessly debate a possible first contact mission, the Society of Jesus quietly organizes an eight-person scientific expedition of its own. What the Jesuits find is a world so beyond comprehension that it will lead them to question what it means to be "human".
The Sparrow
This book might be part of the Ballantine reader's circle series.
448 pages
English language
Published Sept. 8, 1997 by Ballantine Books.
Subjects
- Jesuits -- Fiction.
- Life on other planets -- Fiction.
- Twenty-first century -- Fiction.
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