The Smell of Coffee

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He corners the market on all good. This society is very smell based like they are variants of the way things smell. So he uses it to further his financial standing and later in a excuse me, what kind of money do they use? I they have a name for it, but I don't remember. He hates the way coffee tastes, but the way it smells is amazing. It smells so good. Oh, yeah, I don't drink coffee, but I like the way it smelling. And I can get behind so many smells. Say that right now. Not every smell, but no, not every smell,. There are plenty of smells that I can.

We're back to sci-fi this week, but we take a break from the politics-heavy universe of Isaac Asimov's Foundation series. Mary Doria Russell's The Sparrow instead uses science fiction to discuss anthropology, colonialism, and theology. There's some genuinely funny and warm stuff in this book, but there's a shadow hanging over the proceedings from the outset: eight people set out to explore the first known alien planet inhabited by sentient life, but only one comes back, and he's much worse for the wear.

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