The Sparrow : Jesuits in Space and Rookie Mistakes

The Sparrow is an interesting and compelling, but deeply flawed book. Telling the story of a Jesuit mission to Rakhat, an inhabited world in the Alpha Centauri system, it’s an echo of the experience of Jesuit missionaries in North America during the colonial era. But it’s also the author’s first novel, and it shows in one key aspect of the narrative.

00:00 Intro
01:45 Meandering Summarizing
05:00 The Runa and Jana’ata (with new illustrations)
08:40 Where the Book Fails
13:00 Final Thoughts