<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On May 12, 2008, at 3:11 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; ">As an alternate take on some of the themes in _Case of Conscience_, one<br>should also read _The Sparrow_ by Mary Doria Russell, an astonishing<br>book in its own right and one that may appeal to Wolfe fans specifically<br>for a number of reasons.</span></blockquote></div><br><div>Russ Allbery's devastating review of _CoC_(<a href="http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/reviews/books/0-345-24480-X.html">A Case of Conscience)</a> is right on the mark. The first fifty pages, I think, are actually pretty good, and then Blish takes the novel in exactly the least interesting direction possible.</div><div><br></div><div>Adam</div></body></html>