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  • (Tears) A Case of Conscience by James Blish

    From James Nicoll@21:1/5 to All on Sun Feb 16 14:10:51 2025
    A Case of Conscience (After Such Knowledge, volume 3) by James Blish

    A Jesuit little inhibited by actual Catholic doctrine wrestles
    with his fear newly-contacted aliens are a Satanic creation.

    https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/serpent-in-the-garden
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  • From Paul S Person@21:1/5 to Nicoll on Sun Feb 16 09:02:24 2025
    On Sun, 16 Feb 2025 14:10:51 -0000 (UTC), jdnicoll@panix.com (James
    Nicoll) wrote:

    A Case of Conscience (After Such Knowledge, volume 3) by James Blish

    A Jesuit little inhibited by actual Catholic doctrine wrestles
    with his fear newly-contacted aliens are a Satanic creation.

    https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/serpent-in-the-garden

    At the start of my Great Re-Read (decades ago, long since decayed into
    other literary efforts), I did Blish. This involved buying all of
    those books I didn't have and reading/re-reading everything.

    /A Case of Conscience/ was one of several that convinced me that I had
    wasted time and money, because the ones I already had were the only
    ones I enjoyed.
    --
    "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
    Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
    Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"

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