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    SparrowSeries

    series · 2 books · 1996

    Science fiction and first contact, emotional in tone, about aliens and faith and religion, set in other star systems and near future.

    “The title refers to Gospel of Matthew 10:29–31, which relates that not even a sparrow falls to the earth without God's knowledge thereof.”

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