Separrie's Thought Process

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A runa comes to him with some coffee beans that she got from the you know, the earth party. Separrie is always he's always looking around himself to see where his next opportunity is going to be. He meets the humans and initially attacks them, but like pretty quickly they establish like they start communicating.

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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