The Jesuits and the Death of a Child

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By the time that Emilio actually lands. on this planet, do you the reader know that it that it went bad? Yeah. So then then you have that kind of dramatic irony of what went bad? How's it gonna go bad? Right. And so by the time Emilio gets back from the planet, this report about the stuff that he did has been around for like a decade already. Oh, dip. The Jesuits are not doing great.

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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