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A Case of Conscience
James Blish

Published 1958 by Ballantine Books · 188 pages
Hugo Winner 1959
Science FictionSynopsis
Jesuit priest and biologist Father Ramon Ruiz-Sanchez is part of a commission evaluating the planet Lithia, whose reptilian inhabitants have built a perfectly moral society without any concept of God or religion. Concluding that the planet is a snare created by the Devil to undermine faith, he faces an agonizing crisis of conscience that pits his scientific training against his theological convictions.
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Series
After Such Knowledge #1
Author Nationality
US
ISBN
9780345438355