The Sparrow

Informationen zum Autor Mary Doria Russell Klappentext Mary Doria Russell is a former anatomist, has studied six languages, trained as a paleoanthropologist and is the author of scientific papers on subjects as various as bone biology and cannibalism. Her first novel, The Sparrow, won the 1996 James Tiptree Award, the 1998 BSFA Award and the 1998 Arthur C. Clarke Award and she has also won the Cleveland Arts Council Prize for Literature and the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer of Science Fiction. Her second novel, Children of God, is the sequel to The Sparrow. Mary Doria Russell lives in Cleveland, Ohio, with her husband and their son. Zusammenfassung Combining elements of science fiction and spiritual philosophy, this novel is a tale of the devastating consequences of a scientific mission to make contact with an extraterrestrial culture.

Product details

• Authors: Mary Doria Russell
• Publisher: BLACK SWAN
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.11.1997
• EAN: 9780552997775
• ISBN: 978-0-552-99777-5
• No. of pages: 512
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 198 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Christian / Futuristic, Nature & existence of God, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church, Nature and existence of God, Nature and existence of God and of the Divine