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The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell is an excellent 'first contact' novel with a literary/philosophical flavour. Basically, while the government is arguing about what to do when they discover another sentient life, the Jesuits send a private ship out. One survivor comes back, disfigured and traumatized. The novel goes back and forth between his treatment in the 'present day' and flashbacks to where exactly everything went wrong.
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