Ebook: The sparrow
Author: Mary Doria Russell
- Tags: Jesuits -- Fiction. Life on other planets -- Fiction. Twenty-first century -- Fiction. Jesuits. Life on other planets. Twenty-first century.
- Year: 1996
- Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
- City: New York
- Edition: 1st ed
- Language: English
- epub
A Jesuit leads an expedition to investigate singing emanating from a planet. So are discovered the Runa, intelligent beings, but undernourished. The explorers fix that and a population explosion follows, attracting space-age cannibals who start eating them. The explorers are killed, except for the Jesuit who tells the tale.
Abstract: A Jesuit leads an expedition to investigate singing emanating from a planet. So are discovered the Runa, intelligent beings, but undernourished. The explorers fix that and a population explosion follows, attracting space-age cannibals who start eating them. The explorers are killed, except for the Jesuit who tells the tale