Children of God
by Mary Doria Russell
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- ISBN 13
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About This Item
'Not for the Society. Not for Holy Mother Church. Nevertheless, for yourself and for God, you must go back,' Gelasius III told Emilio Sandoz with a terrifying joyful certainty. 'God is waiting for you, in the ruins...'
The sole survivor of the original catastrophic mission to the planet Rakhat, Father Emilio Sandoz has barely begun to recover from his horrific physical and psychological wounds when he is surrounded by the Vatican to take part in a second expedition to Alpha Centauri. With his objections and his fears summarily ignored, it seems Sandoz is powerless to escape his past or the future.
Against his will, he returns to Rakhut to be confronted by a world writhing in the agonizing throes of revolutionary change. And as ghosts from his past rise up to haunt him, opening old scars, Emilio finds himself struggling to make sense of a moral universe whose boundaries now reach beyond our solar system - and whose future lies with children born amongst the stars.
Synopsis
Trained as a paleoanthropologist and the author of scientific articles on subjects ranging from bone biology to cannibalism, Mary Doria Russell received her B.A. in cultural anthropology from the University of Illinois, her M.A. in social anthropology from Northeastern Univer-sity and her doctorate in biological anthropology from the University of Michigan. She lives in Cleveland, Ohio, with her husband and their son and is at work on her third novel. A Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club From the Hardcover edition.
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- DASHbooks (AU)
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- Title
- Children of God
- Author
- Mary Doria Russell
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0552998117
- ISBN 13
- 9780552998116
- Publisher
- Transworld Publishers
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- maria doria russell, sci-fi, fantasy novel, children of god, holy church
- Bookseller catalogs
- Sci-fi; Fantasy; Novel;
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