In the final scene, he commits the Manichean heresy by excommunicating the whole planet over FTL radio while a bumbling human engineer accidentally blows it up. In the book’s second half, set on a dystopian Earth, he finally concludes that their innocence is Satanic. Father Ramon is bothered by the apparent innocence of the Lithians.
His arrival interrupts Father Ramon’s Jesuitical musings on the nature of evil and innocence. In the first paragraph, we meet a biologist with the symbolic name of Cleaver slamming a door in frustration because he has gotten something like trench mouth from a local fruit. The first half explores what Star Trek would come to call the Prime Directive, in which human corporate technology is shown to be inferior to the stable non-technological culture of the Lithians. E-book, ed., Open Road, 2017.Ī Case of Conscience is almost two different books.
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