OMG, Duchess, The Sparrow, what a good book. It's a favorite of mine and Joy's (Dragonlilly on the watch). The Watch has a thread on the General SF/Fantasy forum, that would gladly welcome your input I'm sure, but you might want to wait till you finish the reading since I might have put spoilers in that thread. Mrs. Russell wrote a sequel, The childern of God. I gave copies of this book as Christmas presents in 2004, and I do not own a copy of my own.
The answers to your questions and plot elements revealed throughout the book.
I believe the book is superbly written and deals with profoundly deep matters, in a thoughtful and serious way. Have you reviewed any of the qestions tabulated at the end of the book? IMO, most of those questions were intelluctlly soft and very lightweight; however if you look over the Watch's thread you will see two or more questions I posed about the book.
FWIW, it was while reading The sparrow that I realized Dances with wolves was really a first contact SFnal story.
Regarding threads here, well I think there was one? But I'm not sure.
Lastly, was it hard for you to find this book, because around here my local B&N and Borders always have more than one copy anytime I've looked? taraswizard
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