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SUMMARY:Children of God (Sequel to The Sparrow) - Mary Doria Russell
DESCRIPTION:Mary Doria Russell's first novel\, the award-winning The Sparro
 w\, proved that any stock SF theme can be renewed by hard thought and good
  writing. The first human expedition to the alien world of Rakhat ends in 
 complex disaster\; the only survivor\, the Jesuit linguist Emilio Sandoz\,
  is brought back an emotional wreck--only by telling his story of complex 
 cultural misunderstandings does he even gradually regain his sanity\, if n
 ot his faith.\n\nSPOILER WARNING - SELECT TEXT TO READ IT\n\nRakhat is a w
 orld with... two intelligent species\, not one--and the gifted biologists 
 and musicians whose radio messages attracted Earth's attention not only en
 slave\, but eat\, the likable efficient peasants that humans first contact
 ed. Sandoz is shanghaied back\, by a coalition of the Church and the Mafia
 \, ...only to find the situation even more complicated...--he was not\, af
 ter all\, the only survivor. XXXXXX\, infuriated by massacres\, has starte
 d a ...revolution... - and when prey determine to be rid of their predator
 s\, revolution becomes genocide. This is a powerful novel of religion\, po
 litics and bad choices--it is a sequel which intelligently undercuts and r
 evises assumptions its predecessor imposed on us\; like its predecessor\, 
 it is one of the key sf novels of the 90s.\n\n\n\nThe Sparrow has received
  the following awards:\n\nLonglist for the 1999 James Tiptree\, Jr. Award\
 nNominee for the 1999 Hugo Awards\nThe Sparrow and Children of God togethe
 r won the 2001 Gaylactic Spectrum Hall of Fame.
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