The Barnes & Noble Review In Double Full Moon Night, the sequel to the highly praised Bright Messengers, author Gentry Lee reintroduces readers to the gigantic white spacecraft that might be a visitor from another planet or a harbinger from heaven. The Rama node, first seen in Arthur C. Clarke's Rendevous with Rama, is itself a small world full of alien life forms and mysterious, perhaps even mystical incidents. Once again, with great concentration on the finest of details, Lee manages to provide a deeply poetic, absorbing novel that takes traditional questions of existence in the universe and presents them with a unique amalgam of science fiction, theological debate, and outright eerie suspense. Some background first: When the Rama nodes entered our universe, the world was divided on whether the great ships were piloted by aliens or were messengers from God. After the global depression of the 22nd century left the world economy shattered, the Order of St. Michael grew upon the belief that the spheres were divine in nature and followers should do all they could to ease humanity's suffering. Sister Beatrice, a priestess of St. Michael, encountered white ribbons of light that she believed to be angels. Johann Eberhardt, a German engineer, studied the spheres with the eye of a scientist steeped in logic. After traveling to Mars to aid colonists there, Johann and Beatrice met and were taken aboard one of the gigantic craft, along with several other colonists. Once inside, Johann and Beatrice were separated from the others and lived on a beautiful island they called Paradise, where theysoonfell in love. Beatrice refused to break her vows of chastity, however, and was raped by one of her fellow travelers, Yasin, who managed to come ashore to Paradise after being expelled from a distant land. Johann killed Yasin, but Beatrice became pregnant and died during childbirth.