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SUMMARY:THE SPARROW - Mary Doria Russell
DESCRIPTION:Father Emilio Sandoz\, a Jesuit linguist\, heads a team of scie
 ntists and explorers on an expedition to the planet Rakhat\, where contact
  has been established with two apparently primitive races\, the Runa and t
 he Jana'ata. Beyond all expectations one of these peoples have started tra
 nsmitting by radio but while the UN debates the moral issues of cultural c
 ontamination that any investigation would bring\, the Vatican equips a shi
 p and sets off.\n\nThey meant no harm.\n\nThe narrative shifts back and fo
 rth between 2016\, when contact is first made\, and 2060\, to a Vatican in
 quest interrogating the maimed and broken Sandoz. A palaeoanthropologist\,
  Russell makes the descriptions of the inhabitants of Rakhat both convinci
 ng and unsettling.\n\n\nThe Sparrow has received the following awards:\n\n
  	The 1996 James Tiptree\, Jr. Award\n 	The 2001 Kurd Laßwitz Award 1998\
 n 	John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer\n\nThe Sparrows and it's seq
 uel\, Children of God\, together won the 2001 Gaylactic Spectrum Hall of F
 ame.
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