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    Robert A. Heinlein · standalone novel · 1961

    About faith and religion and psychic powers, set in north america and near future.

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    Hard science fiction, about space exploration and faith and religion.

    “The Message, awaited for so long, its very possibility doubted by so many, arrives.”

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    Set in north america.

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