RUSSELL, MARY DORIA — The Sparrow

New York, NY: Villard Books, 1996. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Robin Locke Monda. Cover Art; This is a First Edition, First Issue with all the correct points." (photographer's name spelled as Ross rather than Rossi on rear flap," karstic" (pg. 16) and "thirty-two feet per second" (pg. 95) rather than the later corrections, "karst" and " thirty-two feet per second per second". The words "First Edition" with a number line starting with 2 on the copyright page - which was a Villard (subsidiary of Random House) method of notating First Edition before 2000. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. This is the author's first book and the winner of three Science Fiction awards : The James Tiptree Award, The Arthur C. Clarke award and The British Science Fiction Award along with being a nominee for the Hugo award. "Russell's first two novels, The Sparrow and its sequel Children of God (1998) —sometimes called the Sparrow series or Emilio Sandoz sequence—(Random House Villard in 1996 and 1998) are a pair of speculative fiction novels focused on the religious and psychological implications of first contact with aliens. Both explore the problem of evil (theodicy) and how to reconcile a benevolent, omniscient, all-powerful deity with lives filled with undeserved suffering." (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .