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The Sparrow was good, but far too depressing for my tastes. I couldn't bring myself to read the sequel even though it was sitting right there on my shelves.
The Sparrow is also a fascinating study in the way reader expectations change with the genre. As a sci-fi reader, I cringed at some of unrealistic world-building and chafed at the utter lack of clear physical descriptions of the aliens. But (if I recall correctly) the book hit the NYT Bestseller lists, and I'm guessing the lack of hard sf details had a lot to do with that. It played with the ideas of science fiction without forcing mainstream readers to wallow through the details of science fiction.
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