{"id":11118,"date":"2017-09-16T22:49:21","date_gmt":"2017-09-17T02:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=11118"},"modified":"2017-09-25T16:53:38","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T20:53:38","slug":"children-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/children-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Children of God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;I was willing to hear this song, because I had once yearned for a world in which lives would be governed not by lineage and lust and moribund law, but by love and loyalty. In this one valley, such lives are possible&#8230; If it is a mistake to hope for such a world, then it is a magnificent mistake.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Children of God<\/strong> by Mary Doria Russell, published in 1998<\/p>\n<p>A new expedition is heading to the planet Rakhat. Emilio Sandoz, survivor of the first expedition, is training the crew in the alien languages they&#8217;ll need and anything else he can think of. The Pope has asked Emilio to go back as well, but Emilio refused &#8212; and, because of what happened on Rakhat, Emilio has decided to leave the Jesuits.<\/p>\n<p>This is the sequel to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/the-sparrow\/\"><strong>The Sparrow<\/strong><\/a>. I wanted to find out what happened to Emilio.<\/p>\n<p>One character we thought was dead turns out to be alive. The slight lack of continuity is worth it to have the point of view of Sophia in this novel.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about the ends (possibly) justifying the means, and a society in revolutionary transition.<\/p>\n<p>If you read <strong>The Sparrow<\/strong> you&#8217;ll want to read this one as well &#8212; it&#8217;s an important part of the story.<\/p>\n<p>This is the 2nd book I&#8217;ve read by Russell &#8212; she moved away from science fiction so I might not read any of her others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;I was willing to hear this song, because I had once yearned for a world in which lives would be governed not by lineage and lust and moribund law, but by love and loyalty. In this one valley, such lives are possible&#8230; If it is a mistake to hope for such a world, then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,28,5,8],"class_list":["post-11118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-book","tag-novels","tag-review","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11118"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11189,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11118\/revisions\/11189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}