A Case of Conscience
Author(s): James Blish
Father Ramon Ruiz-Sanchez S.J., is a part of a four man scientific commission to the planet Lithia, there to study a harmonious society of aliens living on a planets which is a biologist's paradise. He soon finds himself troubled: how can these perfect beings, living in an apparent Eden, have no conception of sin or God? If such a sinless Eden has been created apart from God, then who is responsible? Winner of the Hugo Award for best novel, 1959.
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James Blish (1921-75) James Blish studied microbiology at Rutgers and then served as a medical laboratory technician in the US army during the Second World War. Among his best known books are Cities in Flight, A Case of Conscience, for which he won the Hugo in 1959 for Best Novel, Doctor Mirabilis, Black Easter and The Day After Judgement.
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- : Orion Publishing Co
- : Orion Children's Books (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
- : 0.198
- : 30 April 2014
- : 198mm X 128mm X 15mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
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- : James Blish
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : 813.54
- : 208