Ratings158
Average rating4
I liked it a lot. It's a strange beast though: definitely a scifi story, with an intriguing handful of “science inventions”, it is nonetheless not a story about those. Maybe that's what makes it a really good scifi story; it's really about the people, not the science.
You can read the rest of this review on my blog at
https://renatoram.ch/p/the-sparrow-by-mary-doria-russell/