The Unrest of Seth Myers

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Seth Myers is dead. I'm on another planet. No, like I'm missing out on 30 seasons of Saturday Night Live for this. Let's go. If you're going to leave Earth, is that the thing you would man Seth Myers is dead? Jeez. So they basically brought that Chronicles of Narnia video to this planet and that's what causes all the unrest. Okay. They make contact with this John Aata named Superi, S-U-P-A-A-R-I. And so there are a couple chapters that happen from the perspective of Superi and you, like through him, you gather a sort of rough understanding of the way

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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