Ep 105 - The Sparrow, by Mary Doria Russell
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The Confluence of Events
The book is set in what for us is like the immediate future, but what for Russell in 1996 would have been like 20 years from then? Sounds reasonable. So it's set partially in 2019, partially in 2060. But in 2019, Milio Sandos and a group of his friends who are, you know, they are, they come from all walks of life. They hear this transmission from another planet and determines that there must be sentient life living on that planet.
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